William Wordsworth Quotes

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

William Wordsworth

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• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Long
  • High

• Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Men
  • Children
  • Mother

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Men
  • Man
  • Fear

• In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Men
  • Health

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Yourself

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Earth
  • Luck
  • Wedding

• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Miracles
  • Odds

• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • Words

• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Eye