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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a02cff | Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way. | Wilkie Collins | ||
| bca134b | Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. | Wilkie Collins | ||
| 8b977f3 | I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man. | Wilkie Collins | ||
| 9d5ed7f | My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. | Wilkie Collins | ||
| a33e33b | Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| a591289 | Pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 26c501c | Barkis is willin'! | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 9fde44d | The readinesse of doing doth expresseNo other but the doer's willingnesse. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| b8cf88e | I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 58a2edf | That what he will he does, and does so muchThat proof is call'd impossibility. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 11843d1 | Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 814ac85 | Our wills are ours, we know not how;Our wills are ours, to make them thine. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| b932bb4 | There is nothing good or evil save in the will. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 0f7e80b | To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 04428ae | The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| a57b6ab | All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 571bab3 | A boy's will is the wind's will. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 6fcd8e1 | Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 9b857b2 | And binding nature fast in fate,Left free the human will. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| 39f9f27 | AllLife needs for life is possible to will. | Will (philosophy) | ||
| d53fec7 | Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch. | Will Cuppy | ||
| 606a29e | I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart. | Will Cuppy | ||
| cd5758e | Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live. | Will Cuppy | ||
| a7e30c2 | All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. | Will Cuppy | ||
| 9062b19 | To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows. | Will Cuppy | ||
| d968218 | Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse. | Will Cuppy | ||
| aab9c7f | Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody! | Will Cuppy | ||
| e7b0914 | Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't? | Will Cuppy | ||
| 983272c | Then Hamilcar … was drowned in 228 B.C. while crossing a stream with a herd of elephants. | Will Cuppy | ||
| 9944195 | She was the most intelligent woman of her day and she refused to get married in nine languages. | Will Cuppy | ||
| 3adb5f5 | Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much. | Will Cuppy | ||
| dd86af3 | Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book. | Will Cuppy | ||
| cb2e4b6 | Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. | Will Durant | ||
| 80bdc7a | Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. | Will Durant | ||
| 9104a67 | When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. | Will Durant | ||
| f7f8d53 | Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. | Will Durant | ||
| 6eb2f86 | a nation is born stoic and dies epicurean | Will Durant | ||
| 2d31635 | No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. | Will Durant | ||
| 79714ff | A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. | Will Durant | ||
| 82e2dd2 | Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity. | Will Durant | ||
| 5c70b94 | Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates. | Will Durant | ||
| 1d06535 | Man is as young as the risks he takes. | Will Durant | ||
| 79ccc00 | Happiness is the free play of the instincts, and so is youth. | Will Durant | ||
| b240d00 | It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life. | Will Durant |