Thoughts

Famous quotes containing the word thoughts:

“Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits.
The flighty purpose never is o’ertook
Unless the deed go with it. From this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)