Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. "

William Butler Yeats

Related Quotes:

" Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "

William Butler Yeats

" The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. "

William Butler Yeats

" We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. "

William Butler Yeats

" Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. "

William Butler Yeats

" There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. "

William Butler Yeats

" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "

William Butler Yeats

" Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. "

William Butler Yeats

" You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. "

William Butler Yeats

" But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? "

William Butler Yeats

" This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. "

William Butler Yeats

" People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. "

William Butler Yeats

" An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. "

William Butler Yeats

" The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. "

William Butler Yeats

" Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. "

William Butler Yeats

" How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. "

William Butler Yeats

" The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. "

William Butler Yeats

" Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. "

William Butler Yeats

" Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. "

William Butler Yeats

" How can we know the dancer from the dance? "

William Butler Yeats

" Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. "

William Butler Yeats

" Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. "

William Butler Yeats

" The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. "

William Butler Yeats

" Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. "

William Butler Yeats

" I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' "

William Butler Yeats

" Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. "

William Butler Yeats

" Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. "

William Butler Yeats

" I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. "

William Butler Yeats

" A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. "

William Butler Yeats

" The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. "

William Butler Yeats

" But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. "

William Butler Yeats