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

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of...

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of...

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

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

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

Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay...

Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay...

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

And say my glory was I had such friends.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah,...

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah,...

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of...

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of...

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods...

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods...

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.