Quote #199
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
More from William Wordsworth
- Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
- We take no note of time but from its loss.
- How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
- What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
- Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- To begin, begin.
- Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.