William Allen White Quotes
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.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.
He knew no better than he did. He talked from the wisdom of his own heart, out of the experience of his own life and out of the vanity of his own hopes.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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.
Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
A story is a curious thing, that grows with a kind of consciousness of its own.
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold - by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Choices make character and character makes happiness.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.
The emotion called love and its twin desire hunger, are the two primal passions of life.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
Man is a blowhard. He likes to lie - not in malice but to stimulate his vanity. And, curiously, he doesn't seem to care whether the lie he tells in one hour fits the lie he tells the next.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
Always remember this: Happiness is from the heart out - not from the world in.
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.
Only as our hearts react on life, do we get happiness or misery, not from the events that follow the procession of days.
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
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.
What is this irrational current of the stuff of life, that carries us all in its sway, that brings us to earth, that guides our destinies here - makes so vastly for our happiness or woe, gives us strength or makes us weak, teaches us wisdom or leads us into folly unspeakable, and all unseen, unmeasured and infinitly mysterious!
Happiness and character are inseperable, but how easy it is to be happy in a great, beautiful house; or to be unhappy if it comes to that in a great, beautiful house.
For him who would be wise, wisdom is nearer at hand than it was before our generation went to work.
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.