2010 Quotationals Quotation Bee


William Ames 

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.


William D Ruckelshaus 

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.


William Howard Taft 

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.


William Butler Yeats 

I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’


W. H. Auden 

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.


William Shakespeare 

Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.


William HP Faunce 

No man can follow Christ and go astray.


W. H. Auden 

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.


William Bernbach 

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.


Walter Savage Landor 

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.