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William R. Alger
17 quotes
“Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William R(ounseville) Alger, American clergyman and writer [1822-1905]; reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315
Also quoted by: Tom Stoppard (misattributed)
“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.
“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 23.
“The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,— Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A thousand years a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source