William Blake
42 quotations
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
Energy is eternal delight.
Expect poison from standing water.
What is now proved was only once imagined.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Opposition is true friendship.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.