The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

Quote by William Butler Yeats

Topics: Elderly Quotes

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more...

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more...

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from...

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from...

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall...

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed...

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance...

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance...

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that...

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that...

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

And say my glory was I had such friends.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

In dreams begins responsibility.

In dreams begins responsibility.

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the...

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the...

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only...

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only...