This Is a Beta Version. Feel free to play around, but your submissions, comments, settings, ratings, and/or other data may suddenly disappear or return to a previous state. The old version is more stable. Please send your ideas, complaints and other comments to webmaster@aphorismsgalore.com. Thank you.

William Blake

English poet and artist; b. 1757; d. 1827

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

1–5 (5)  ·  Submit an Aphorism

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (32 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (166 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A truth that's told with bad intent<BR>Beats all the lies you can invent

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (48 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (41 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake, in Science and Religion

1–5 (5)  ·  Submit an Aphorism