Featuring Fate Wilson

Famous quotes containing the words fate and/or wilson:

    “Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,
    That fate is thine—no distant date;
    Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives , elate,
    Full on thy bloom,
    Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight,
    Shall be thy doom.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For ... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)