We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and s...
WILLIAM GILBERT He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
WILLIAM GILBERT In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are ob...
WILLIAM GILBERT Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Pain with the thousand teeth.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON God has given us these opportunities for tranquility.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inabi...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
SIR WILLIAM JONES And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pall...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ar...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God;...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fo...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave ...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes -- cats -- I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sor...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hook wa...
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and...
SIR WILLIAM OSLER Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER The king never dies.
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings. He takes your window...
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and na...
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the de...
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and ...
SIR WILLIAM DRAPER Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
SIR WILLIAM PREECE To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books w...
SIR WILLIAM OSLER The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you a...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, an...
SIR WILLIAM OSLER The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individua...
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Life is made up of interruptions.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing, "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT As innocent as a new-laid egg.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree, If your soul...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight and a mi...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft-- Such a bright l...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Bad language or abuse I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though "Bother it" I m...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Oh! to be wafted away From this black Aceldama of sorrow, Where the dust of an earthy to-day ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I've got to take under my wing, / Tra la, / A most unattractive old thing, / Tra la, / With a carica...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Take a pair of sparkling eyes.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pr...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He uses language that would make your hair curl.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT But they couldn't chat together - they had not been introduced.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I was a pale young curate then.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, / Which is ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The mildest curate going.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boil...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT In enterprise of martial kind / When there was any fighting, / He led his reg'ment from behind / He ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT When I first put this uniform on.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A source of innocent merriment.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT She may very well pass for forty-three / In the dusk with a light behind her!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bor...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT So I fell in love with a rich attorney's / Elderly ugly daughter.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That'...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Life is a joke that's just begun.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Dukes were three a penny.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Man is nature's sole mistake.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter, Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND (2) Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON (1) My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolera...
SIR WILLIAM HENRY MAULE Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate. My ...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddl...
SIR WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a na...
SIR WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
GILBERT BAKER I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will fin...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not...
WALTER GILBERT I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious bac...
WALTER GILBERT Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
WALTER GILBERT We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this ha...
WALTER GILBERT Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
WALTER GILBERT Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you c...
WALTER GILBERT Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve...
WALTER GILBERT The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our bio...
WALTER GILBERT By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formu...
WALTER GILBERT Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to mo...
WALTER GILBERT In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those th...
WALTER GILBERT The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes a...
WALTER GILBERT The best project is one that asks a novel question.
WALTER GILBERT The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
WALTER GILBERT We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
WALTER GILBERT Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banq...
JACK GILBERT I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realiz...
JACK GILBERT I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ...
JACK GILBERT You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every ni...
JACK GILBERT I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are f...
GILBERT HIGHET It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
GILBERT PARKER Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hote...
BRAD GILBERT I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban a...
DAN GILBERT A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not jus...
DAN GILBERT StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better...
DAN GILBERT From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committ...
DAN GILBERT First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one ba...
DAN GILBERT If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimi...
DAN GILBERT When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can ...
DAN GILBERT When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
DAN GILBERT To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of t...
DAN GILBERT It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That&...
DAN GILBERT If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world aroun...
DAN GILBERT There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, ...
DAN GILBERT There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up...
DAN GILBERT Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
DAN GILBERT Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
DAN GILBERT