Famous Quotes / Sir William Temple
Sir William Temple: "Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
Arrows | Back | Believe | Complaints |
Critical | Criticizing | Destroy | Fall |
Heads | Hovering | Inability | Indeed |
Into | Ourselves | Present | Purpose |
Shot | Target | Time | Upon |
Wish |