Life Quotes

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

William Godwin

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

William Godwin

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

William Godwin

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

William Godwin

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

William Godwin

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

William Godwin

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

William Godwin

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

William Godwin

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

William Godwin

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

William Golding

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William Golding

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

William Golding

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

William Golding

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

William Goldman

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

William Goldman

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

William Greider

I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

William Green

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

William Green