William Levitt quotes

William Levitt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
-- William Levitt

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“Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.”
-- William Levitt

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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”
“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”
“The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.”
“I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.”
“Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.”

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