"No man has ever lived that had..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
More by William Butler Yeats
“The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.”
“And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,Or who have found a painter to make them so for payAnd smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
“And if joy were not on the earth,There were an end of change and birth,And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,And in some gloomy barrow lieFolded like a frozen fly.”
More on Love
“Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,And young affection gapes to be his heir;That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.”
“With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.”
“Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.”
More on Gratitude
“If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.”
“When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)”
“In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!”