Life Quotes

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

William Howard Taft

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

William Howard Taft

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

William Howard Taft

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

William Howard Taft

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

William Irwin Thompson

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

William Irwin Thompson

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

William Irwin Thompson

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

William Irwin Thompson

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

William Irwin Thompson

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William Makepeace Thackeray

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

William Temple

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

William Temple