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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
William Dean Howells
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
William Dean Howells
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
William Dean Howells
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
William De Morgan
For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.
William De Morgan
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
William Davenant
He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
William Daniels
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
William Dampier
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
William Dampier