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| Wag your tongue as much as you please, but don't wave your
gun. Russian proverb |
| Wagner had beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Gioacchino A.
Rossini |
| Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne
Clemens) |
| Wake up, America.
Augustus P. Gardner |
| Walk softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt |
| Want to forget all your troubles? Wear tight shoes. |
| War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
Charles E. Montague |
| War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
James Kelly |
| Ward's Law: Pay nothing in tax today that you can argue about
tomorrow. Christopher Ward |
Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the
stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past
eight? Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripedes |
Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor
and dispute;
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden
after none, or bitter, Fruit. LIV, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
Water does not stay in a sieve,
Nor gold in a generous pocket,
Nor
patience in love,
Let him be patient who can!
Be content with three
glasses,
Three glasses of pure wine,
And if three are not granted
you,
Then drink one gladly. Learn from the juice of the grape
Which
fills the three glasses
That life is a trinity
Of heart, soul and
mind. Mohammad Urfi |
| We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Jack
Herbert |
| We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all
diseases. Thomas Browne |
| We always might win ... because the others might lose. |
| We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley |
| We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a
good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James |
| We are all related: the same sun dries our rags.
Russian proverb |
| We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see
posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison |
| We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
| We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas
Fuller, M.D. |
| We are born with wisdom; stupidity is acquired.
Italian proverb |
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We are descended not only from monkeys, but from monks.
Elbert Hubbard |
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We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to
tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the
intolerable. George D. Prentice |
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We are like thistle-down blow about by the wind - up and down, here and
there - but not one in a thousand ever getting beyond seed-hood.
Samuel Butler |
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We are most unfair to God: we do not allow Him to sin.
Freidrich W.
Nietzsche |
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We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so
helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its
love. Sigmund Freud |
We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and
go
Round with the Sun-illuminated Lantern held
In Midnight by the
Master of the Show. LXVIII, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
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We are not amused.
Queen Victoria |
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt |
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We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its
despotism. Edward Dahlberg |
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded
with a sleep. William Shakespeare [The Tempest] |
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We are the people our parents warned us about. |
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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was
good; what would he say now? George Bernard Shaw |
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We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges
say it is. Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |
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We are what we do; consequently, excellence is not an act but a
habit. Aristotle |
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We as often repent the good we have done as the ill.
William Hazlitt |
| We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Charles C. Colton |
| We blame in others only the faults by which we do not
profit. Alexandre Dumas Sr. |
| We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not
understand. Eric Hoffer |
| We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. Douglas Yates |
| We didn't inherit the land from our fathers. We are borrowing it from
our children. Amish belief |
| We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another
which is eternal. Anatole France |
| We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese |
| We drink one another's health and spoil our own. Jerome K. Jerome |
| We find fault with perfection itself. Blaise Pascal |
| We forget because we must And not because we will. Matthew Arnold |
| We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by
it. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| We give nothing so freely as advise. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| We grow small trying to be great. E. Stanley Jones |
| We hang little thieves and take our hats off to great ones. German
proverb |
| We have all forgot more than we remember. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| We have confused free with the free and easy. Adlai Stevenson |
| We have met the enemy and not only is he ours, he is us. Walt Kelly |
| We have two moralities side by side: one which we preach but do not
practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. Bertrand
Russell |
| We humans are the greatest of the earth's parasites. Martin H. Fischer |
| We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its
periodical fits of morality. Thomas B. Macaulay |
| We know what we are, but we know not what we may be. William
Shakespeare [Hamlet] |
| We learn from history that we do not learn from history. George W. F.
Hegel |
| We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| We make coffee the old fashioned way ... we urn it! |
| We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do. John
C. Collins |
| We may be masters of our every lot by bearing it. Virgil (Publius
Vergilius Maro) |
| We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex
- but Congress can. Cullen Hightower |
| We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent. Pierre Nicole |
| We never confess our faults except through vanity. Francois, Duc de La
Rochefoucauld |
| We never forgive those who make us blush. Jean-Francois de La Harpe |
| We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Thomas Fuller,
M.D. |
| We often despise what is most useful to us. Aesop [The Hare and the
Hunter] |
We often forgive those who bore us, but
we cannot forgive those whom we
bore. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front. Napoleon
Bonaparte |
| We ought to have books teaching us not how to compose music but how to
decompose it. Samuel Butler |
| We prefer to speak evil of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at
all. |
| We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our
fears. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| We read to say that we have read. Charles Lamb |
| We send missionaries into China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but
we won't let them into our country. Pearl S. Buck |
| We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us. Sir Winston
Churchill |
| We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the
weather. Marquis de Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues |
| We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late
to live. Carolyn Wells |
| We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its
passion, but my its strength and constancy. Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein |
| We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the
particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. William James |
| Wealth unused might as well not exist. Aesop [The Miser and His Gold] |
| Wedding: The point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins
roasting her. Helen Rowland |
| Wedlock, a padlock. English proverb |
| Wedlock's like wine - not to be properly judged of till the second
glass. Douglas Jerrold |
| Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the
phone? James Thurber |
| Well-married, a man is winged - ill-matched, he is shackled. Henry
Ward Beecher |
| Well, my mother loved me. Al Capone |
| Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the
stimulus of fleas. Francis Galton |
Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten.
(He who laughs last laughs best) |
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present life away
to win -
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out
the very Breath we now breathe in! XIV, Rubayat of Omar Khayyam (edition?) |
| What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as
easily as we do our eyes. George C. Litchtenberg |
| What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody
had said it before. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in
it. Charles D. Warner |
| What a man wants: all he can get; what a woman wants: all she can't
get. George D. Prentice |
| What a pity it is that nobody knows how to manage a wife but a
bachelor. George Colman Sr. |
| What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write
it on air. Gais Varelius Catullus |
| What awful irony is this? We are as gods, but know it not. |
| What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing - the ugly and
digusting - the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to
remember. Eugene O'Neill |
| What can be more strange than to see a people obliged to obey laws they
never understood. Michel de Montaigne |
| What can't be cured must be insured. Oliver Herford |
| What cannot be altered, must be borne, not blamed. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| What children hear at home soon flies abroad. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| What did you do in the Great War, daddy? Recruiting placard, 1914-8 |
| What do bank tellers tell? And to whom do they tell it? |
| What do restaurants do with frog arms? |
| What do you call a nut that has a cold .... cashew! |
| What do you get in place of a conscience? Don't answer. I know: a
lawyer. Kirk Douglas |
| What do you have when you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?
Not enough sand. |
| What does not poisons, fattens. Italian proverb |
| What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them? Roger von
Oech |
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist
both wind and tide. William Shakespeare [Henry VI] |
What fools men are to weep the dead and gone!
Unwept, youth drops its
petals one by one. Theognis |
| What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
| What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder; God will
take care of that. George Bernard Shaw |
| What good is honor on an empty stomach? Russian proverb |
| What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes. |
| What harm in getting knowledge from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or
an old slipper? Francois Rabelais |
| What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. Kitty
O'Neill Collins |
| What if my trousers are shabby and worn; they cover a warm heart. Tom
Masson |
| What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit,
to do the unnecessary. Richard Harness |
| What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time, be but to
sleep and feed? A beast, no more! William Shakespeare |
| What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its
soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| What is called discretion in men is called cunning in animals. Jean de
La Fontaine |
| What is commonly called friendship is only a little honor among
rogues. Henry David Thoreau |
| What is dignity without honesty? Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| What is home without a hot-water bottle? Don Herold |
| What is love? The need to escape from oneself. Pierre C. Baudelaire |
| What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus
Aurelius Antoninus |
| What is reading but silent conversation? Walter S. Landor |
What is so truly rare
As a genuine agnostic?
Only a learned Polar
Bear
Who completes a double-crostic. Edmund H. Volkart |
| What is the sound of one hand clapping? |
| What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? German
proverb |
| What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends. Carl
Sandburg |
| What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do
it. Ambrose Bierce |
| What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to
do. Aristotle |
| What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot (Mary Ann
Evans) |
| What maintains one vice would bring up two children. English proverb |
| What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where
the climate's sultry. Samuel Butler |
| What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is
working when he's staring out the window. Burton Rascoe |
| What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length. Charles de
Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu |
| What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's
transparency. George J. Nathan |
| What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense of
cleanliness. Freidrich W. Nietzsche |
| What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose
his own soul? Bible, Mark 8:36 |
| What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency? |
| What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. Will
Rogers |
| What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. Dutch proverb |
| What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the
coffin. Henry Ward Beecher |
| What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his
lips. Danish proverb |
| What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. Franklin P. Adams |
| What use is wisdom when folly reigns? Yiddish proverb |
| What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. Portuguese proverb |
| What was once thought can never be unthought. Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Benjamin
Disraeli |
| What we have here, is a failure to communicate. |
| What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with
diligence. Samuel Johnson |
| What we love we shall grow to resemble. Bernard of Clairvaux |
| What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
What, without asking, hither hurried Whence?
And, without asking,
Whither hurried hence!
Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine
Must
drown the memory of that insolence! XXX, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th
Ed.) |
| What you are, not what you have, is what makes you rich. |
| What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles |
| What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius |
| What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
| What you don't know can't hurt you. |
| What you see can depend on what you look for. |
| What...God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Bible,
Matthew 19:6 |
| What's all our knowledge worth? We don't even know what the weather
will be tomorrow. Berthold Auerbach |
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would
smell as sweet. William Shakespeare [Romeo and Juliet] |
| What's on your mind - if you'll forgive the overstatement? Fred Allen |
What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology.
What the second?
Tautology.
What the third? Tautology. Sir Richard Steele |
| Whatever else an American believes on disbelieves about himself, he is
absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. E.B. White |
| Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past. William H.
Mallock |
| Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Bible, Galatians 6:7 |
| When a court finds two precedents in conflict, it must follow the later
one. Justice Learned Hand |
| When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the
thing," it's the money. Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |