W.S. Gilbert Quotes
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
