Life Quotes

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

William Faulkner

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Falkner The Sound and the Fury

Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to...

William Faulkner

I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids liked to work with their hands as much as I did. I was an only child so I did ...

Wendy Froud

Prayer does work sometimes, but hard work always works.

Winnie Fernando

The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing Your mind they'll ease Your will they'll mend And charge you not a shilling.” -- Nur...

Wayne Fields

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

W.C. Fields

Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.

William Faulkner

Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.

Wesam Fawzi

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Life's too short. Live with more courage. Give and receive from the heart. Inspire your world.

Wesam Fawzi

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

William Faulkner

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

William Faulkner

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

William Faulkner

It's a comfortable thing, music is.

William Faulkner

I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. (...)

Wendy Froud

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw...

William Faulkner