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| The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savouring | Warren Chappell | |
| What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. | Wendell Phillips | 1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator |
| Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. | Wilferd A. Peterson | |
| A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. | Will Rogers | 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor |
| You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. | William Boetcker | |
| I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. |
| Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. |
| Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire. | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. |
| It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. | William Cobbett | 1762-1835, British Journalist, Reformer |
| 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. | William Congreve | 1670-1729, British Dramatist |
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| It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. | William Faulkner | 1897-1962, American Novelist |
| I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. | William Lyon Phelps | |
| If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! | William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist |
| Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. | William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist |
| A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. | William Murray | 1705-1793, American Judge |
| Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
| Language is a virus from outer space. | William S. Burroughs | 1914-1997, American Writer |
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| O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.'' | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| It was Greek to me. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| My library was dukedom large enough. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi] | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees? | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it. | William Styron | 1925-, American Novelist |
| Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgement see. | William Wycherley | 1640-1716, British Dramatist |
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| From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. | Woody Allen | 1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian |
| A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. | Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957, British Author, Painter |
| Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 1884-1937, Russian Writer |
| To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare. | Yoshida Kenko | |
| Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful. | Young | |
| Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defence of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education¨ | Yvor Winters | 1900-1968, American Literary Critic |
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| People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily. | Zig Ziglar | American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker |
| In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. | A. E. Housman | 1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar |
| The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. | Albert J. Beveridge | American Senator |
| Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behaviour and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
| America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet |
| America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. | Arnold Toynbee | 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
| America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. | Auguste Bartholdi | |
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