Top 100 Wilt's Quotes
#1. People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
Bill Russell
#2. Never mind what some will say, for then thou wilt never have done. One may as soon tie up the winds, as the tongues of slanderers.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#3. PSA16.11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Anonymous
#4. Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.
Epictetus
#5. Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
Marcus Aurelius
#6. Da quod iubes et iube quod vis
Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt
Augustine Of Hippo
#7. We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
Wilt Chamberlain
#8. Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
Josh Billings
#9. The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
Wilt Chamberlain
#10. If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
Wilt Chamberlain
#11. That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
John Donne
#12. It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
George Saunders
#14. Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
Wilt Chamberlain
#15. Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
Robert Browning
#16. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
#17. If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
#19. And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
Francis G. Thompson
#20. He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
Wilt Chamberlain
#21. Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.
Adolf Hitler
#23. The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish
Jonathan Safran Foer
#24. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.
Thomas A Kempis
#25. I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.
Wilt Chamberlain
#26. If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.
Alice Waters
#27. People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
Wilt Chamberlain
#28. The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
Rick Wise
#29. Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.
Crystal Woods
#30. Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.
Matthew Crow
#31. As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
William Wordsworth
#33. Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night. Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.
William Shakespeare
#34. We are all plants in God's great garden.
His knowledge is our soil.
With it we can live forever.
Without it we wilt and die.
Calvin W. Allison
#35. I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
Ricky Schroder
#36. We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.
Violette Leduc
#38. Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.
John Stuart Blackie
#39. A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
Wilt Chamberlain
#40. You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Wilt Chamberlain
#41. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come: so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so.
William Shakespeare
#42. Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.
Thomas Boston
#43. But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
Wilt Chamberlain
#44. The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.
Gene Shue
#45. But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.
Eric Wilson
#46. There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
Aleister Crowley
#47. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.
Aleister Crowley
#48. O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.
George Matheson
#49. I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.
Annie Golden
#50. Thou wilt die soon and thou are not yet simple nor free from perturbations, nor without suspicion of being hurt by external things, nor kindly disposed towards all; nor dost thou yet place wisdom only in acting justly.
John Steinbeck
#51. He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.
Marcus Aurelius
#52. Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight? Aye, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
William Shakespeare
#53. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
William Shakespeare
#54. It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.
Wilt Chamberlain
#56. [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
Richard Baxter
#57. Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.
Isaac McLellan
#58. We are water. We are air. We grow, we bloom, we seed, we wilt, we die. There is a false separation between humanity and nature. Of
Nora Bateson
#59. Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening if thou has spent the day profitably.
Thomas A Kempis
#60. I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
Wilt Chamberlain
#61. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#62. Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
Henry Twells
#64. If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.
Rumi
#65. Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Sophocles
#66. We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
Marianne Moore
#67. Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
thyself of, when thou wilt.
Marcus Aurelius
#68. Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
William Penn
#70. Bold Lover, never, never canst Thou kiss, Though winning near the goalyet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though Thou hast not Thy bliss, Forever wilt Thou love, and she be fair
John Keats
#71. Then she was terribly angry, and took him up and threw him with all her might against the wall. "Now, thou wilt be quiet, odious frog," said she.
Jacob Grimm
#72. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.
Nancy Farmer
#73. Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
Yet love me
wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#74. Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine
#75. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
Matthew Henry
#76. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Ovid
#77. Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
William Cowper
#78. If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
Thomas Adams
#79. Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
John Newton
#82. Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.
Wilt Chamberlain
#83. The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
Plutarch
#84. Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
William Shakespeare
#85. In fact, Kote himself seemed rather sickly. Not exactly unhealthy, but hollow. Wan. Like a plant that's been moved into the wrong sort of soil and, lacking something vital, has begun to wilt.
Patrick Rothfuss
#86. There is no less wickedness potentially in the tamest sinner on earth, than in the devils themselves, and that one day thou, whoever thou art, wilt show to purpose, if God prevent thee not by his renewing grace. Thou
William Gurnall
#87. The past and the present wilt. I have fill'd them, emptied them,
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Walt Whitman
#88. For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Anonymous
#89. 28 O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.
MMLJ
#90. Hours trickle by, and I wilt. The magic isn't here for me tonight. I can't get away from the heavy feeling of being me. I want to blend in, to be someone besides myself, someone who is part of something secret and subversive and exciting.
Bethany Griffin
#92. Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou never learn that Jesus has even the least of His little boats always under His watchful eye, and all the winds and the waves obey Him?
Theodore L. Cuyler
#93. Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.
John Salley
#94. As you thus take "sweet counsel" with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your converse is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking unto him; let your heart be full of him; let your lips speak of his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#95. Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.
Martin Luther
#96. Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.
Kurt Hahn
#97. I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
Sarah Jessica Parker
#98. Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
John Donne
#99. Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
Euripides
#100. Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
