Best William Butler Yeats Proverbs
- Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. Disappointment
- Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger… Conquer
- 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… Alone
- When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of… Beautiful
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. Beer
- Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. Carry
- I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed… Child
- The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. Alcohol
- One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. Anger
- How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. Ah
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. All
- If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. Brings
- We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. Corresponding
- An intellectual hatred is the worst. Hatred
- We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Argument
- I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard… Among
- Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. Bag
- This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing… Air
- Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. Best
- 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
- To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. Beautiful
- 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… Abyss
- I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman… Better
- Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. Joy
- Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. All
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