W.H. Davies Quotes

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!

If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost as little as air

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.

Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

an imitator is always a poor example.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.