"What made us dream that he could comb…" — William Butler Yeats
"What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?"
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
— Hippolyte Taine
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I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the…
— Moe Norman
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat,…
— Champfleury
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I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff
— Shane West
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One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a…
— Jennifer James
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It…
— David Foster Wallace
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But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward…
— Bridget Hall
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You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.
— David Icke
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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to…
— Jonathan Dimbleby
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There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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