William White Quotes
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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."
William White
Topics:
American Editor
Editor's Pick
Future
Life
Pearls of Wisdom
Positive
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"Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs."
William White
Topics:
Tolerance
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
William White
Topics:
Reason
"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals."
William White
Topics:
American Editor
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
William White
Topics:
American Editor
"Kansas is a state of the Union, but it is also a state of mind, a neurotic condition, a psychological phase, a symptom, indeed, something undreamed of in your philosophy, an inferiority complex against the tricks and manners of plutocracy -- social, political and economic."
William White
"Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood."
William White
Topics:
American Editor
Justice
"All dressed up, with nowhere to go."
William White
"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal"
William White
"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away -- and it is the biggest kick of all."
William White
"Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man."
William White
Topics:
American Editor
"Peace without justice is tyranny."
William White
Topics:
American Editor
Justice
"If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be."
William White
". . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick."
William White
Topics:
Brick
"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace."
William White
"Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them."
William White
"Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - look at Jeannette Rankin. Probably a hundred men in Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the wisdom of her position. But, Lord, it was a brave thing!"
William White
Topics:
Congress
Courage
Wisdom
"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."
William Allen White
Topics:
Insanity
"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
William Allen White
Topics:
American Editor
"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."
William Allen White
Topics:
American Editor
"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all."
William Allen White
Topics:
American Editor
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