Sharing

The American Red Cross will be embarking upon a national effort to share with the American public our fundamental principles that include humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality ... in an effort to ensure Americans are compassionate to all, regardless of their ethnic, religious, or national heritage.
~ Bill Blaul, CNN TV (19 September 2001). William Blaul: The Red Cross response

Underneath all differences of theological expression, there is a common gospel which makes the Church, in fact, one.
~ William A. Brown, A Teacher and His Times (1940).

No discovery can be of general utility while the practice of it is kept in the hands of a few.
~ William Buchan, Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines (2nd edition; 1771)

The possession of peace like ours is not a thing to be hugged in selfish enjoyment, it is endangered unless it can be shared.
~ William John ("W.J.") Cameron, from A Series of Talks Given on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour (1935).

We have many things in common, the greatest of which is that we are both afraid of the children.
~ Bill Cosby

Be your own self with all people whether they be King or Homeless. Always dare to share, naturally, frankly and honestly. Sharing increases.
~ William H. Danforth, I Dare You! (1931).

I dare you, whoever you are, to share with others the fruits of your daring. Catch a passion for helping others, and a richer life will come back to you.
~ William H. Danforth, I Dare You! (1931).

Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening; those which when shared multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which when divided are diminished.
~ William H. Danforth, I Dare You! (1931).

And the more help from others a man has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
~ William H. Davies, from My Garden (1933).

Unified knowledge unifying life.
~ William James "Will" Durant, Address, Harvard University (1926).

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence, which is common to all men.
~ William Fleming, The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical (1856).

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.
~ William Friedkin, The Harold Lloyd Master Seminar Series at the American Film Institute (16 March 1994).

You are forced to tell or to write about the things you have most at heart.
~ William Hamilton Gibson, Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things (1897). A Naturalist's Boyhood

Familiarity breeds contempt.
~ William Godwin, Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries (1831). Essay I. Of Body and Mind. The Prologue

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
~ Billy Graham, from The Quotable Billy Graham (1966).

We felt this work force should be able to share to some extent in the progress of the company.
~ William R. Hewlett

If you would be happy, this truth never doubt ye,
Attempt to make happy the people about ye.
~ William Hutton, from Poems, chiefly tales (1804). Maxims

Whatever the few may add to the possible things of civilisation, the many must, according to their several talents, share them.
~ William Hurrell (W.H.) Mallock, The Limits of Pure Democracy (1917). Book VII. Chapter II: The Mental Data of Culture

We must improve the shared conditions in which we live, of course, but the essential purpose of that will be in order to inhabit more fully the necessary and unalterable terms of our existence. Take away the avoidable injustices of some lives that we may humanly share in the unavoidable injustice that is in all our lives.
~ William McIlvanney, quoted in Laverock magazine (1995). Natural Loyalties: The Work of William McIlvanney

It turns out, you need other people to know things. You have to share with other people. Two people, working together, learn things faster than individuals alone. Pairs solve problems faster than individuals can. The organization of the office has never understood that. That's why the office will persist and grow. Because knowledge aggregation is faster in groups. The office has shifted from a place to work as an individual to a place to work as a group.
~ Bill Miller, Fast Company magazine (August 1996). We've Seen the Future of Work and It Works, But Very Differently

Then all Mine and all Thine shall be Ours, and no more shall any man crave
For riches that serve for nothing but to fetter a friend for a slave.
~ William Morris, from Poems by the Way (1891). The Day is Coming

Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow,
And seek for men's love in the short days of life.
~ William Morris, The Pilgrims Of Hope (1885). The Message of the March Wind

What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a world, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all -- the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.
~ William Morris, Justice (1884)

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization. ... Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
~ Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas: Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future (1989).

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
~ Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet, The Mature Mind (1969).

Meaning in life is shared. We cannot have even proximate meaning except in the context of culture. This is true for religious people as for agnostics or atheists. No group can cut out the others.
~ William (Will) B. Provine, Darwin Day Keynote Address (1998). Evolution: Free will and punishment and meaning in life

Nearer than ever before seems the time when all souls that are loyal to truth and goodness shall find fellowship in freedom of faith and in service of love.
~ William North Rice, Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (11 October 1899). Scientific Thought in the Nineteenth Century

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
~ Will Rogers

In unity there is strength. Consider the fragile snowflake that flutters slowly to earth and disintegrates; however, if enough of them stick together they can paralyze an entire city.
~ William Rosenberg

Both of you are birds of self-same feather.
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III

Give me grace to lay
My duty on your hand.
~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. Act III, scene xi

Honour and beauty, in the owner's arms,
Are weakly fortress'd from a world of harms.
~ William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

I have told you what I have seen and heard.
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear. Act I, scene ii

Think all but one, and me in that one Will.
~ William Shakespeare, Sonnet 135

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
~ William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale. Act IV, scene iv

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. Act V, scene i

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman, Letter to Mayor James M. Calhoun of Atlanta and others (12 September 1864).

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves -- our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
~ William E. Simon, in The Chronicle of Philanthropy (18 June 1998). Giving Away a Personal Treasury

All right. I listen. My life sinks a little
farther, for the pity; from now on I know it
with them. We'll take a stand, wherever the end is.
We go forward by this quiet sharing,
they one way, I another. I am their promise:
no one else is going to know.
~ William Stafford, A Glass Face in the Rain (1982). Con fessor

[Y]ou were aimed from birth:
you will never be alone. Rain
will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,
long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,
moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --
that's what the silence meant: you're not alone.
The whole wide world pours down.
~ William Stafford, Assurance (1978).

In all manner of human aspirations must we learn to share: in the triumphs as well as the trials; in the graces and the disgraces; in the comforts and the discomforts; in the joys and in the sorrows; in the wealth and in the wants and poverty. We must gently learn to melt the frozen bitterness of those in need, and courageously handle the condescending indifference of those who possess. ... Mankind must come to sharpen his outlook of mutual human affinity, and be made sensible to the binding kinship that renders us all ONE.
~ William R. Tolbert, Jr., Address at the Awards Dinner, Society of "The Family of Man" of the Council of Churches of New York, New York City (31 October 1974). Man Is One Name

If you will have any more
Vouchsafe to sing it yourself,
For here you have all my store.
~ William Wager, The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art (c. 1568).

Without Enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests: for no one can heartily deceive numbers, who is not first of all deceived himself.
~ William Warburton, from The Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion Occasionally Opened and Explained (1753). The Character and Conduct of the Messengers of the Gospel

Let me go forth, and share
The overflowing Sun
With one wise friend, or one
Better than wise, being fair ...
~ William Watson, Ode in May (1897).

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
~ Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

While it may take an extraordinary individual to create an important social invention, it should be possible for mere mortals to identify that social invention, describe it, and analyze it in ways that will permit others to adapt it to their own interests and needs.
~ William Foote Whyte, ASR Presidential Address, published in the American Sociological Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 (February 1982). Social Inventions for Solving Human Problems

The hard fact, beyond all sentimentality, is that either we share suffering in love or outside of love, and it is not the same in one case as in the other.
~ Daniel Day Williams

So the Christians and the Pagans sit together at the table
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able.
~ Dar Williams, in Mortal City Christians and Pagans (Song, 1996)

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load if you just call me.
~ Bill Withers, in Still Bill (1972 album). Lean On Me