DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 33)
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Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. St. James.
Where friends are in earnest, each day brings 40 its own gain, so that at last the year, when summed up, is of incalculable advantage. Details in reality constitute the life; results may be valuable, but they are more surprising than useful. Goethe.
Where God gives, envy harms not; and where he gives not, no labour avails. L. Pr.
Where God has built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel. Luther.
Where God helps, nought harms. Pr.
Where have they who are running here and there in search of riches such happiness as those placid spirits enjoy who are gratified at the immortal fountain of happiness? Hitopadesa.
Where I am, there every one is. Rabbi Hillel.
Where idolatry ends, Christianity begins; and where idolatry begins, Christianity ends. Jacobi.
Where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise. Gray.
Where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Where is the good of having a right to make 5 both yourself and your neighbours miserable?... Mutual accommodation is the law of the world, or its inhabitants would all be wretched together. Mrs. Gatty.
Where is the man who has the power and skill / To stem the torrent of a woman's will? / For if she will she will, you may depend on't; / And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. Dane John Monument at Canterbury.
Where it is weakest, the thread breaketh. Pr.
Where law ends, tyranny begins. Fielding.
Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be excluded. Quarles.
Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy doth 10 call himself affection's sentinel. Shakespeare.
Where man is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world. Ruskin.
Where Nature's end of language is declined, / And men talk only to conceal the mind. (?)
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. Bible.
Where no fault is, there needs no pardon. Pr.
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton. 15
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Pr.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth. Bible.
Where none thou canst discern, make for thyself a path. Goethe.
Where once Truth's flame has burnt, I doubt / If ever it go fairly out. Hannah More.
Where one is wise, two are happy. Pr. 20
Where one man shapes his life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have it shaped for them by impulse and by circumstances. Lowell.
Where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. St. Paul.
Where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, / That comes to all. Milton.
Where people are tied for life, 'tis their mutual interest not to grow weary of one another. Lady Montagu.
Where power is absent we may find the robe 25 of genius, but we miss the throne. Landor.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. Johnson.
Where shame is, there is fear. Milton.
Where the carcase is, the ravens will gather. Pr.
Where the devil cannot come, he will send. Ger. Pr.
Where the devil has smoothed your road, / 30 Keep to the right like an honest man. Dr. W. Smith.
Where the greater malady is fix'd, / The lesser is scarce felt. King Lear, iii. 4.
Where the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, many things are made clear that else lie hidden in darkness. Longfellow.
Where the heart is, there the Muses, there the gods sojourn. Emerson.
Where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth the front of self-respect, there look thou for the man whose name none can know but they will honour. Tupper.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters 35 speed well. A. B. Alcott.
Where there is a splashing of dirt, it is good not to meddle and to keep far away. Hitopadesa.
Where there is much light there is a darker shadow. Goethe.
Where there is music, nothing really bad can be. Cervantes.
Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. Byron.
Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity 40 to sympathise with joy is much stronger than our propensity to sympathise with sorrow. Adam Smith.
Where there is no hook, to be sure there will hang no bacon. Sp. Pr.
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour. Johnson.
Where there is no law, there is no transgression. St. Paul.
Where there is no love, all are faults. Pr.
Where there is no shame, there is no honour. 45 Pr.
Where there is no sympathy with the spirit of man, there can be no sympathy with any higher spirit. Ruskin.
Where there is smoke there is fire. Pr.
Where there is too much light, our senses don't perceive; they are only stunned or dazzled or blinded. Pascal.
Where there's a will there's a way. Pr.
Where there's muckle courtesy there's little 50 kindness. Sc. Pr.
Where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Tillotson.
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Jesus.
Where vice is, vengeance follows. Sc. Pr.
Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed before / The dropping sweat that springs from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the ascent, and rough the road. Hesiod.
Where we find echoes, we generally find 55 emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. J. F. Boyes.
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, / And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Goldsmith.
Where wilt thou go that thou wilt not have to plough? Sp. Pr.
Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you sink. Delaune.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. Rich. II., ii. 2.
Where would be what silly people call Progress if not for the grumblers? John Wagstaffe.
Where you see your friend, trust to yourself. Sp. Pr.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Jesus.
Where your will is ready, your feet are light. 5 Pr.
Where's the use of a woman's having brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as everybody's a-laughing at? George Eliot.
Whereas Johnson only bowed to every clergyman, I would bow to every man, were it not there is a devil dwells in man as well as a divinity, and too often the bow is but pocketed by the former. Carlyle.
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, / Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman. Rich. II., i. 3.
Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground. Byron.
Wherever a man dwells he will be sure to 10 have a thorn-bush near his door. Pr.
Wherever a true woman comes, home is always around her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worms in the night-cold grass may be the fire at her feet; but home is where she is; and for a noble woman it stretches far around her, better than houses ceiled with cedar or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far for those who else are homeless. Ruskin.
Wherever in the world I am, / In whatsoe'er estate, / I have a fellowship with hearts / To keep and cultivate. A. L. Waring.
Wherever nature does least, man does most. Amer. Pr.
Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. Emerson.
Wherever the devil makes a purchase, he 15 never fails to set his mark. Goldsmith.
Wherever the health of the citizens is concerned, much more where their souls' health, and as it were their salvation, is concerned, all governments that are not chimerical make haste to interfere. Carlyle.
Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also. Sen.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky. Saadi.
Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition. John Wagstaffe.
Wherever there is a sky above him and a 20 world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. Carlyle.
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Judge Haliburton.
Wherever there is cupidity, there the blessing of the Gospel cannot rest. The actual poor, therefore, may altogether fail to be objects of that blessing, the actual rich may be the objects of it in the highest degree. Matthew Arnold.
Wherever there is power there is age. Emerson.
Wherever there is war, there must be injustice on one side or the other, or on both. Ruskin.
Wherever women are honoured, the gods are 25 satisfied. Manu.
Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. Emerson.
Wherever you see a gaming-table, be very sure Fortune is not there.... She is ever seen accompanying industry, and as often trundling a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. Goldsmith.
Wherever your lot is cast, duty to yourself and others suggests the propriety of adapting your conduct to the circumstances in which you are placed. Samuel Lover.
Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the good is lying near. / Fortune learn to seize alone, / For that Fortune's ever here. Goethe.
Wherefore waste I time to counsel thee / That 30 art a votary to fond desire? Two Gent. of Verona, i. 1.
Wherein does barbarism consist, unless in not appreciating what is excellent? Goethe.
Wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. Thomas à Kempis.
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Jesus.
Wheresoever the search after truth begins, there life begins; wheresoever the search ceases, there life ceases. Ruskin.
Wheresoever two or three living men are 35 gathered together, there is society; or there it will be, with its mechanisms and structures, over-spreading this little globe, and reaching upwards to Heaven and downwards to Gehenna. Carlyle.
Whereto serves mercy, / But to confront the visage of offence? / And what's in prayer, but this twofold force,—to be forestalled ere we come to fall, / Or pardon'd, being down? Then I'll look up. Ham., iii. 3.
Whether a child, or an old man, or a youth, be come to thy house, he is to be treated with respect; for of all men, thy guest is the superior. Hitopadesa.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, men of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. Heine.
Whether he be rich or whether he be poor, if he (a man), have a good heart, he shall at all times rejoice in a cheerful countenance; his mind shall tell him more than seven watchmen that sit above upon a tower on high. Ecclus.
Whether it be for life or death, do your own 40 work well. Ruskin.
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on. Goethe.
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. Tillotson.
Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. Pr.
Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. Pr.
Which death is preferable to every other? "The unexpected." Cæsar.
Which highest mortal, in this inane existence, had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted; and, when I looked through his brave garnitures, miserable enough? Carlyle.
Which is the great secret? The open secret 5 (open, that is, to all, seen by almost none). Goethe.
Which is the lightest in the scale of Fate? / That where fond Cupid still is adding weight. Quarles.
Which of all the philosophies think you will stand? / I know not, but philosophy itself, I hope will continue with us for ever. Schiller.
Which of your philosophical systems is other than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown? Carlyle.
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; / And in the lowest deep a lower deep, / Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, / To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. Milton.
Whichever you do, you will regret it. Socrates, 10 to one who asked him whether he should marry or not.
While a man gets he never can lose. Sp. Pr.
While conscience is our friend, all is peace; but if once offended, farewell the tranquil mind. Mary Wortley Montagu.
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. Lew Wallace.
While digestion lasts, life cannot, in philosophical language, be said to be extinct. Carlyle.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert 15 only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Johnson.
While manufacture is the work of hands only, art is the work of the whole spirit of man; and as that spirit is, so is the deed of it. Ruskin.
While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave, that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling child / Roaming in youth's uncertain wild. Keble.
While mistakes are increasing, like population, at the rate of twelve hundred a-day, the benefit of seizing one and throttling it would be perfectly inconsiderable. Carlyle.
While others tippled, Sam from drinking shrunk, / Which made the rest think Sam alone was drunk. Lucian.
While the serpent sheds its old skin, the new 20 is already formed beneath. Carlyle.
While there is hope left, let not the weakness of sorrow make the strength of resolution languish. Sir P. Sidney.
While thy shoe is on thy foot, tread upon the thorns. Pr.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look upon them as virtues. Heine.
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone. Hume.
While we think to revenge an injury, we many 25 times begin one, and after that repent our misconceptions. Feltham.
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil. 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Whilst a man confideth in Providence, he should not slacken his own exertions; for without labour he is unworthy to obtain the oil from the seed. Hitopadesa.
Whilst lions war and battle for their dens, / Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young. Emerson.
Whining lover may as well request / A scornful 30 breast / To melt in gentle tears, as woo the world for rest. Quarles.
Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Burns.
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. Blair.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. Paley.
Who are wise in love, love most, say least. Tennyson.
Who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find / 35 The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow. Byron.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, / And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; / Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat / To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Goldsmith.
Who bravely dares most sometimes risk a fall. Smollett.
Who breaks his own bond, forfeiteth himself. George Herbert.
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; / And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. Prior.
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, / 40 Will never mark the marble with his name. Pope.
Who but the poet was it that first formed gods for us; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us? Goethe.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? / Or sells eternity to get a toy? Shakespeare.
Who by repentance is not satisfied / Is not of heaven, nor earth. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who can be patient in extremes? 3 Hen. VI., i. 1.
Who can compute what the world loses in the 45 multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral? J. S. Mill.
Who can direct when all pretend to know? Goldsmith.
Who can do nothing of sovran worth / Which men shall praise, a higher task may find, / Plodding his dull round on the common earth, / But conquering envies rising in the mind. Dr. W. Smith.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil, all the days of her life. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Bible.
Who can heal the woes of him to whom balm has become poison, who has imbibed hatred of mankind from the fulness of love? Goethe.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Bible.
Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, / He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind. George Herbert.
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you. 5 Pr.
Who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish; but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much. Goethe.
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, / He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave; / Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,—/ His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. Pope.
Who could pin down a shadow to the ground, / And take its measure? Dr. W. Smith.
Who digs a pit for others falls into it himself. Ger. Pr.
Who does not act is dead; absorpt entire / In 10 miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: / O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death! Thomson.
Who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels. Goethe.
Who does not in his friends behold the world, / Deserves not that the world should hear of him. Goethe.
Who does the best his circumstance allows, / Does well, does nobly; angels could no more. Young.
Who doth not work shall not eat. Pr.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 15 Marlowe.
Who fastest walks, but walks astray, / Is only farthest from his way. Prior.
Who fears death forfeits life. Seume.
Who fears to do ill sets himself a task; / Who fears to do well sure should wear a mask. Herbert.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? Thackeray.
Who firmly can resolve, he conquers grief. 20 Goethe.
Who follows all things forfeiteth his will. George Herbert.
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little. Lavater.
Who gets by play proves loser in the end. Heath.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. Lavater.
Who gives the lilies clothing, / Will clothe his 25 people too. Cowper.
Who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. Pr.
Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared for sacrifice. I. Disraeli.
Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. Lavater.
Who has a head will not want a hat. It. Pr.
Who has not felt how sadly sweet / The dream 30 of home, the dream of home, / Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, / When far o'er sea or land we roam? / Sunlight more soft may o'er us fall, / To greener shores our bark may come; / But far more bright, more dear than all, / That dream of home, that dream of home. Moore.
Who hath a greater combat than he that laboureth to overcome himself? Thomas à Kempis.
Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue. Mallet.
Who here with life would sport, / In life shall prosper never; / And he who ne'er will rule himself, / A slave shall be for ever. Goethe.
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence, is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood—he is of celestial descent. Lavater.
Who in want a hollow friend doth try, / 35 Directly seasons him his enemy. Ham., iii. 2.
Who is a stranger to those who have the habit of speaking kindly. Hitopadesa.
Who is sure he hath a soul, unless / It see and judge, and follow worthiness, / And by deeds praise it? He who doth not this / May lodge an inmate soul, but 'tis not his. Donne.
Who is sure of his own motives can with confidence advance or retreat. Goethe.
Who is the best captain of a ship? The grumbler and the man of discipline, who will have things as they ought to be, even though he lose every sailor serving under him by his severity. John Wagstaffe.
Who is the best general? The grumbler who 40 insists upon having everything in mathematical order, and who has not the smallest drop of the milk of human kindness about him, whenever it is a question of duty or efficiency. John Wagstaffe.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own. Goethe.
Who is the most sensible man? He who finds what is to his own advantage in all that happens to him. Goethe.
Who is there almost, whose mind at some time or other, love or anger, fear or grief, has not so fastened to some clog that it could not turn itself to any other object? Locke.
Who is there that can clutch into the wheel-spokes of destiny, and say to the spirit of the time: Turn back, I command thee? Wiser were it that we yielded to the inevitable and inexorable, and accounted even this the best. Carlyle.
Who is't can say, I'm at the worst? / I'm worse than ere I was, / And worse I may be yet; the worst is not, / So long as we can say, / This is the worst. Lear, iv. 1.
Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who judgeth evil, God them amend. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, / And rots to nothing at the next great thaw. George Herbert.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book kills reason itself. Milton.
Who knows art half, speaks much and is always 5 wrong; who knows it wholly, inclines to act, and speaks seldom or late. Goethe.
Who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty? She needs no politics, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power; give her but room and do not bind her when she sleeps. Milton.
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else. A. B. Alcott.
Who knows what Love is, may not sup / On that which is not still divine. Dr. W. Smith.
Who leaves all receives more. Emerson.
Who looks not before finds himself behind. 10 Pr.
Who loves his own sweet shadow in the streets / Better than e'er the fairest she he meets. Burns.
Who loves me, loves my dog. L. Pr.
Who loves, raves. Byron.
Who made the heart, 'tis He alone / Decidedly can try us; / He knows each chord, its various tone, / Each spring, its various bias. / Then at the balance let's be mute, / We never can adjust it; / What's done we partly may compute, / But know not what's resisted. Burns.
Who make poor "will do" wait upon "I 15 should;" / We own they're prudent, but who owns they're good? Burns.
Who marks in church-time others' symmetry, / Makes all their beauty his deformity. George Herbert.
Who never climbs will never fa'. Sc. Pr.
Who never doubted never half believed. Bailey.
Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome But half his foe. Milton.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose; / 20 A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows. Pope.
Who plays for more / Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart. George Herbert.
Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much. Bacon.
Who riseth from a feast / With that keen appetite that he sits down? / Where is the horse that doth untread again / His tedious measures with the unabated fire / That he did pace them first? All things that are / Are with more spirit chaséd than enjoy'd. Mer. of Venice, ii. 6.
Who say, I care not, those I give for lost; / And to instruct them, 'twill not quit the cost. George Herbert.
Who seeks Him in the dark and cold, / With 25 heart that elsewhere finds no rest, / Some fringe of the skirts of God shall hold, / Though round his spirit the mists may fold, / With eerie shadows and fears untold. Dr. W. Smith.
Who shall be true to us, / When we are so unsecret to ourselves? Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, / And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me. Pope.
Who shall place / A limit to the giant's unchained strength, / Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? W. C. Bryant.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, / While the star of hope she leaves him? Burns.
Who should be trusted when one's right 30 hand / Is perjured to the bosom? Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who shuts love out shall be shut out from love. Tennyson.
Who so firm that cannot be seduced? Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Who so unworthy but may proudly deck him / With his fair-weather virtue, that exults / Glad o'er the summer main? The tempest comes, / The rough winds rage aloud; when from the helm / This virtue shrinks, and in a corner lies / Lamenting. Thomson.
Who soars too near the sun with golden wings melts them. Shakespeare.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the 35 deepest in man, and finds the readiest response. A. B. Alcott.
Who spouts his message to the wilderness, / Lightens his soul and feels one burden less; / But to the people preach, and you will find / They'll pay you back with thanks ill to your mind. Goethe, Prof. Blackie's translation.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed. Othello, iii. 3.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind / Must look down on the hate of those below. Byron.
Who the race of men doth love, / Loves also him above. Lewis Morris.
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This 40 pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Gray.
Who track the steps of glory to the grave. Byron.
Who trusts in God fears not his rod. Goethe.
Who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart if he can help it. Sterne.
Who values that anger which is consumed only in empty menaces? Goldsmith.
Who walks through fire will hardly heed the 45 smoke. Tennyson.
Who watches not catches not. Dut. Pr.
"Who will guard the guards?" says a Latin verse,—"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" I answer, "The enemy." It is the enemy who keeps the sentinel watchful. Mme. Swetchine.
Who will not mercy unto others show, / How can he mercy ever hope to have? Spenser.
Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, / The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, / The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes, / When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin? Ham., iii. 1.
Who would check the happy feeling / That inspires the linnet's song? / Who would stop the swallow wheeling / On her pinions swift and strong? Wordsworth.
Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat under a weary life, / But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of? Ham., iii. 1.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not 5 practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow. Saadi.
Whoever aims at doing or enjoying all and everything with his entire nature, whoever tries to link together all that is without him by such a species of enjoyment will only lose his time in efforts that can never be successful. Goethe.
Whoever can administer what he possesses, has enough, and to be wealthy is a burdensome affair, unless you understand it. Goethe.
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest judge in the world, who can discern only law. Thoreau.
Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Swift.
Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven 10 has lost nothing, for there above is everything he can wish for here below. He only is a loser who persists in looking down on the narrow plains of the present time. Jean Paul.
Whoever converses much among old books will be hard to please among new. Temple.
Whoever despises mankind will never get the best out of others or himself. Tocqueville.
Whoever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path. Saying.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, / Justice conquers evermore. Emerson.
Whoever gives himself to this (evil-speaking and 15 evil-wishing), soon comes to be indifferent towards God, contemptuous towards the world, spiteful towards his equals; and the true, genuine indispensable sentiment of self-estimation corrupts into self-conceit and presumption. Goethe.
Whoever has lived twenty years ought to know how to order himself without physic. Tiberius, quoted by Montaigne.
Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. Joubert.
Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. Vauvenargues.
Whoever has sixpence is sovereign over all men—to the extent of the sixpence; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him—to the extent of sixpence. Carlyle.
Whoever has so far formed his taste as to be 20 able to relish and feel the beauties of the great masters, has gone a great way in his study. Joshua Reynolds.
Whoever is a genuine follower of truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is lead, provided that she is the leader. Burke.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. Chesterfield.
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. Congreve.
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Bacon.
Whoever may / Discern true ends will grow 25 pure enough / To love them, brave enough to strive for them, / And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. E. B. Browning.
Whoever perseveres will be crowned. Herder.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire.
Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. Locke.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, / Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.
Whoever will thrust Magdalen into the pit 30 will find that he has dropped with her into the flames the key that should have opened heaven for him, and assuredly shall he remain outside until she, her purification completed, shall take pity on him and bring it thence. Celia Burleigh.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Johnson.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide from us that he possesses one. Goethe.
Whoever would persuade men to religion both with art and efficacy, must found the persuasion of it upon this, that it interferes not with any rational pleasure, that it bids nobody quit the enjoyment of any one thing that his reason can prove to him ought to be enjoyed. South.
Whole, half, and quarter mistakes are very difficult and troublesome to correct and sift, and it is hard to set what is true in them in its proper place. Goethe.
Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, / 35 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. Hen. V., i. 1.
Wholly a man of action, with speech subservient thereto. Carlyle of his father.
Whom God teaches not, man cannot. Gael.
Whom Heaven has made a slave, no parliament of men, nor power that exists on earth, can render free. Carlyle.
"Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. Byron.
Whom the grandeur of his office elevates over other men will soon find that the first hour of his new dignity is the last of his independence. Chancellor D'Aguesseau.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, straightway the heart of God takes in. Lowell.
Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounced / Wisest of men. Milton, of Socrates.
Whose faith has centre everywhere, / Nor cares to fix itself to form. Tennyson.
Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil. Carlyle. 5
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. Bible.
Whoso can look on death will start at no shadows. Greek saying.
Whoso can speak well is a man. Luther.
Whoso cannot obey cannot be free, still less bear rule; he that is the inferior of nothing, can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing. Carlyle.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his 10 lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Bible.
Whoso devours the substance of the poor will at length find in it a bone to choke him. Fr. Pr.
Whoso does not good, does evil enough. Pr.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. Bible.
Whoso hath love in his heart hath spurs in his sides. It. Pr.
Whoso findeth me (Wisdom) findeth life, and 15 shall obtain favour of the Lord. Bible.
Whoso hath skill in this art (music) is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. Martin Luther.
Whoso is not a misanthropist at forty can never have loved his kind. Chamfort.
Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. Bible.
Whoso lives for humanity must be content to lose himself. O. B. Frothingham.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his 20 Maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Bible.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Bible.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. Bible.
Whoso serves the public is a poor creature (ein armes Thier); he worries himself, and no one is grateful to him for his services. Goethe.
Whoso should combine the intrepid candour and decisive scientific clearness of Hume with the reverence, the love, and devout humility of Johnson, were the whole man of a new time. Carlyle.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the 25 poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. Bible.
Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. Bible.
Whoso, without poetic frenzy, knocks at the doors of the Muses, presuming that his art alone will suffice to make him a poet, both he and his poetry are hopelessly thrown away. Plato.
Whoso would find God must bring him with him; thou seest him in things outside of thee, only when he is within thee. Rückert.
Whoso would work aright must not concern himself about what is ill done, but only do well himself. Goethe.
Whoso would write clearly must think clearly, 30 and if he would write in a noble style, he must first possess a noble soul. Goethe.
Whosoever and whatsoever introduces itself and appears, in the firm earth of human business, or, as we well say, comes into existence, must proceed from the world of the supernatural; whatsoever of a material sort deceases and disappears might be expected to go thither. Carlyle.
Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple. Jesus.
Whosoever has not seized the whole cannot yet speak truly (much less musically, concordantly) of any part. Carlyle.
Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth be possess philosophy. Saadi.
Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many 35 thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another. He tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself. Bacon.
Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. Bacon.
"Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not understand it," says Bettine; and among all her inspired sayings, she spoke none wiser. Mrs. Child.
Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Jesus.
Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Jesus.
Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 40 God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. Jesus.
Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your servant. Jesus to his disciples.
Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Jesus.
Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; / And He that might the vantage best have took / Found out the remedy. How would you be / If He, which is the top of judgment, should / But judge you as you are? Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? / Have I so found it full of pleasing charms? / Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; / Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Burns.
Why are taste (Geschmack) and genius so 45 seldom willing to unite? The former is shy of power, the latter scorns restraint. Schiller.
Why complain of wanting light? It is courage, energy, perseverance that I want. Carlyle.
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections? Mme. de Sévigné.
Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? Carlyle.
Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound? Auerbach.
Why does that hyssop grow there in the chink of the wall? Because the whole universe, sufficiently occupied otherwise, could not hitherto prevent its growing. It has the might and the right. Carlyle.
Why don't the men propose, mamma? / Why 5 don't the men propose? T. H. Bayly.
Why dost thou try to find / Where charity doth flow? / Upon the waters cast thy bread, / Who eats it, who may know? Goethe.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? / For this plain reason—man is not a fly. Pope.
Why insist, ye heroes, against the will of Jupiter, in pressing a Hercules into your enterprise? Know ye not that for him there is quite other work appointed, which he must do all alone, and not another with him? Ed.
Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? Jean Paul.
Why is it that we can better bear to part in 10 spirit than in body, and, while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it? Dickens.
Why is there no man who confesses his vices? It is because he has not yet laid them aside. It is a waking man only who can tell his dreams. Sen.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. Tam. the Shrew, i. 2.
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, / Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, / And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, / Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, / Under the canopies of costly state, / And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Why seek at once to dive into / The depth of 15 all that meets your view? / Wait for the melting of the snow, / And then you'll see what lies below. Prof. Blackie from Goethe.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Mer. of Venice, i. 1.
"Why should calamity be full of words?" / "Let them have scope; though what they do impart / Help not at all, yet do they ease the heart." Rich. III., iv. 4.
Why should honour outlive honesty? Othello, v. 2.
Why should I make a shadow where God makes all so bright? Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should not conscience have vacation / 20 As well as other courts o' th' nation? Butler.
Why should the Garment of Praise destroy the Spirit of Heaviness? Because an old woman cannot sing and cry at the same moment ... one emotion destroys another. Prof. Drummond.
Why should the poor be flatter'd? / No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, / Where thrift may follow fawning. Ham., iii. 2.
Why should thy satisfaction be placed upon a thing which makes thee not one whit the better or the worse? Thomas à Kempis.
Why should we crave a hallow'd spot? / An altar is in each man's cot, / A church in every grove that spreads / Its living roof above our heads. Wordsworth.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, / 25 Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, / Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh? Keble.
Why should we go a-jaunting when the heart wants to repose. Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should we have any serious disgust at kitchens? Perhaps they are the holiest recesses of the house. There is the hearth, after all,—and the settle, and the fagots, and the kettle, and the crickets. They are the heart, the left ventricle, the very vital part of the house. Thoreau.
Why so large cost, having so short a lease, / Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shakespeare.
Why such heat (crushing superstition)? Other nonsense, quite equal to it, will be almost sure to follow. Frederick the Great to Voltaire.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it 30 is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Carlyle.
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, / Which I with sword will open. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Why, universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Why, what should be the fear? / I do not set my life at a pin's fee; / And for my soul, what can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as itself? Ham., i. 4.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. Schopenhauer.
Wickedness is its own punishment. Quarles. 35
Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does. Tillotson.
Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction. Jesus.
Wide our world displays its worth, man's strife and strife's success, / All the good and beauty, wonder crowning wonder, / Till my heart and soul applaud perfection, nothing less. Browning.
Wide will wear, but tight will tear. Pr.
Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt / Eins in 40 dem andern wirkt und lebt!—How everything weaves itself into the whole; one works and lives in the other. Goethe.
Wie bitter sind der Trennung Leiden!—How bitter are the pangs of parting! Mozart.
Wie das Auge, hat das Herz / Seine Sprache ohne Worte—The heart, like the eye, has its speech without words. Bodenstedt.
Wie das Gestirn, / Ohne Hast, / Aber ohne Rast, / Drehe sich jeder / Um die eigne Last—Like a star, without haste, yet without rest, let each one revolve round his own task. Goethe.
Wie der alte verbrennt, steigt der neue sogleich wieder aus der Asche hervor—(Our passions are true phœnixes;) when the old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out of its ashes. Goethe.
Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt—Like the starry heavens, still and in motion. J. C. F. Hölderlin.
Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die 5 Jungen—As the old birds sing, so will the young ones twitter.
Wie die Blumen die Erd', und die Sterne den Himmel / Zieren, so zieret Athen Hellas und Hellas die Welt—As the flowers adorn the earth and the stars the sky, so Athens adorns Greece, and Greece the world. Herder.
Wie ein Pfeil nach seinem Ziele fliegt des braven Mannes Wort—Like an arrow to its aim flies the good man's word. Platen.
Wie eng-gebunden des Weibes Glück!—How straitened is the lot of woman! Goethe.
Wie fruchtbar ist der kleinste Kreis, / Wenn man ihn wohl zu pflegen weiss!—How fruitful the smallest space if we but knew how to cultivate it! Goethe.
Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen—Easily gained, 10 easily spent.
Wie ist das Menschenherz so klein! / Und doch auch da zieht Gott herein—How small is the human heart, and yet even there God enters in. W. Hey.
Wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget!—How earth and heaven contract when our heart frets within its barriers! Goethe.
Wie? Wann? und Wo? Die Götter bleiben stumm. / Du halte dich ans Weil, und frage nicht Warum?—How? when? and where? the gods keep silence. Keep you to the "Because," and ask not "Why?" Goethe.
Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; / And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Dryden.
Wilful waste makes woeful want. Pr. 15
Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a dray-horse? His hoofs are of fire, and his path is through the heavens, bringing light to all lands; will he lumber on mud highways, dragging ale for earthly appetites from door to door? Carlyle on the career and sorrowful fate of Burns.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red. Macb., ii. 2.
Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. Shakespeare.
Will it, and set to work briskly. Schiller.
Will localises us; thought universalises us. 20 Amiel.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. Schopenhauer.
"Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-to-have," which is the proper spirit of the false. Ed.
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope.
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Pr.
Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie 25 Dichter empfinden—Wilt thou understand a poet, then learn to feel as a poet. G. Keil.
Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, / So musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken—Wilt thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then must thou see the whole in the least object. Goethe.
Willst du immer weiter schweifen? / Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah! / Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, / Denn das Glück ist immer da—Wilt thou for ever roam? See, what is good lies so near thee! Only learn to seize the good fortune that offers, for it is ever there. Goethe.
Willst du in's Unendliche schreiten, / Geh' nur im Endliche nach allen Seiten—Wouldst thou step forward into the infinite, keep strictly within the limits of the finite. Goethe.
Willst du leben, musst du dienen; willst du frei sein, musst du sterben—Wouldst thou love, thou must serve; would thou be free, thou must die. Hegel.
Willst du mit Kinderhänden / In des Schicksals 30 Speichen greifen? / Seines Donnerwagens Lauf / Hält kein sterblich Wesen auf—Wilt thou clutch the spokes of destiny with thy child's hands? The course of its car of thunder no mortal hand can stay. Grillparzer.
Willst lustig leben, geh' mit zwei Säcken, / Einen zu geben, einen um einzustecken—Would you live a merry life, go with two wallets, one for giving out and one for putting in. Goethe.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being merciful. Sh.
Wilt thou know a man, above all a mankind, by stringing together beadrolls of what thou namest facts? The man is the spirit he worked in; not what he did, but what he became. Carlyle.
Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do; wilt thou understand others, look into thine own heart. Schiller.
"Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, 35 "and you have all men's hearts and purses." Smiles.
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Fielding.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Bible.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. Fielding.
Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises. Pr.
Wine washes off the daub. Pr. 40
Wings have we—and as far as we can go, / We may find pleasure: wilderness and wood, / Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood / Which with the lofty, sanctifies the low. Wordsworth.
Wink at small faults. Pr.
Wir Menschen sind ja alle Brüder—We men are for certain all brothers. Zschokke.
Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself. Plato.
Wisdom and Fortune combating together, / If that the former dare but what he can, / No chance may shake it. Ant. and Cleo., iii. 11.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. Bible.
Wisdom becomes nonsense (Unsinn) in the mouth of a fanatic (Schwärmer). Otto Ludwig.
Wisdom begins at the end. Webster.
Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth 5 darkness. Bible.
Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Bible.
Wisdom is a pearl; with most success / Sought in still water and beneath clear skies. Cowper.
Wisdom is intrinsically of a silent nature; it cannot at once, or completely at all, be read off in words, and is only legible in whole when its work is done. Carlyle.
Wisdom is justified of her children. Jesus.
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at 10 their ease; rather Nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. Emerson.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Wordsworth.
Wisdom is only in truth. Goethe.
Wisdom is that attribute through which every action of a man receives its ideal value or import (Gehalt). Schleiermacher.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Bible.
Wisdom is too high for a fool. Bible. 15
Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one. Goldsmith.
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. Sir J. Stephen.
Wisdom may sometimes wear a look austere, / But smiles and jests are oft her helpmates here. De Bosch.
Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. Quarles.
Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest. / 20 A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best. George Herbert.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding. Bible.
Wisdom sends us to childhood; "unless ye become as little children." Pascal.
Wisdom sits with children round her knees. Wordsworth.
Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. Pr.
Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is 25 hoarded up, what profit is in them both? Ecclus.
Wisdom, which represents the marriage of truth and virtue, is by no means synonymous with gravity. She is L'Allegro as well as Il Penseroso, and jests as well as preaches. Whipple.
Wisdom will out; it is the one thing in this world that cannot be suppressed or annulled. John Burroughs.
Wisdom's a trimmer thing than shop e'er gave. George Herbert.
Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height, / The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. Onestes.
Wise above that which is written. St. Paul. 30
Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us—a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. Emerson.
Wise is the man prepared for either end, / Who in due measure can both spare and spend. Lucian.
Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes.
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. Cic.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will 35 speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason. Emerson.
Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things. Ruskin.
Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. Anacharsis.
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. Ruskin.
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. Charron.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But 40 cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 3 Hen. VI., v. 4.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. Selden.
Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you will. Cic.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. Bacon.
Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Pope. 45
Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young soul lies fatally over the horizon in these epochs. Carlyle.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. Young.
Wissen ist leichter als thun—To know is easier than to do. Ger. Pr.
Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though 50 meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope.
Wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. Goldsmith.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man. Selden.
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigne.
Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered 5 with virtue and humanity. Addison.
Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Sir Thomas Overbury.
Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. Chapman.
Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Whipple.
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. Pr.
Wit strews a single ray (of the prism) separated 10 from the rest upon an object; never white light, that is the province of wisdom. Holmes.
Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally despised by the vulgar. Goldsmith.
Wit without employment is a disease. Burton.
Wit without wisdom is salt without meat. Horne.
Wit-work is always play, when it is good. Ruskin.
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes 15 a friend, sometimes the engineer: / Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; / But if thou want it, buy it not too dear. George Herbert.
Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of Parliament, but the mysterious relations which it emblemed still continue. Carlyle.
With all appliances and means to boot. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
With bag and baggage. As You Like It, iii. 2.
With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, / Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Milton.
With consistency a great soul has simply 20 nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Churchill.
With devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar over / The devil himself. Ham., iii. 1.
With disadvantages enough to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive. Goldsmith.
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. Lowell.
With every breath we draw, an ethereal 25 stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows. Goethe.
With faith, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross: and without it worldlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread—/ Stitch! stitch! stitch! Hood.
"With it, or upon it, my son." A Spartan mother, when she handed her son his shield as he set out to fight for his country.
With just enough of learning to misquote. Byron.
With love come life and hope. John Sterling. 30
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. John Quincy Adams.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
With moral, political, religious considerations, high and dear as they may otherwise be, the philosopher, as such, has no concern. Carlyle.
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor. Drayton.
With narrow-minded persons, and those in a 35 state of mental darkness, we find conceit: while with mental clearness and high endowments we never find it. In such cases there is generally a joyful feeling of strength, but since this strength is actual, the feeling is anything else you please, only not conceit. Goethe.
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless—/ This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! Byron.
With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Milton.
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Sir T. F. Buxton.
With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. Sen.
With patient mind thy path of duty run; / 40 God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, / But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst see / The end of all events as well as he. (?)
With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. Goethe.
With poetry second-rate in quality, no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind. Ruskin.
With remembrance of the greater grief to banish the less. Howard, Earl of Surrey.
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. Thoreau.
With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, 45 showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears. Goethe.
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! Carlyle.
With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. A. B. Alcott.
With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. Macaulay.
With the Gospels one becomes a heretic. It. Pr.
With the majority of men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another thing. Lichtenberg.
With the possession or certain expectation of 5 good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. Schopenhauer.
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing. Emerson.
With too much quickness ever to be taught; / With too much thinking to have common thought. Pope.
With virtue, capacity, and good conduct, one still can be insupportable. The manners, which are neglected as small things, are often those which decide men for or against you. A slight attention to them would have prevented their ill judgments. La Bruyère.
With well-doing ye may put to silence foolish men. St. Peter.
With what a heavy and retarding weight does 10 expectation load the wing of time. William Mason.
With what is debateable I am unconcerned; and when I have only opinions about things ... I do not talk about them. I attack only what cannot on any possible ground be defended; and state only what I know to be incontrovertibly true. Ruskin.
With women worth the being won, / The softest lover ever best succeeds. Aaron Hill.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. Bible.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Bible.
Within man is the soul of the whole; the 15 wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related—the Eternal One. Emerson.
Within that awful volume lies / The mystery of mysteries. Scott.
Within the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king, / Keeps Death his court. Rich. II., iii. 2.
Within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart. Carlyle.
Within us all a universe doth dwell. Goethe.
Within yourselves deliverance must be 20 sought; / Each man his prison makes. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Without a belief in personal immortality religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. Max Müller.
Without a God there is for man neither purpose, nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. Jean Paul.
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. Emerson.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, / And asks no omen but his country's cause. Pope.
Without adversity a man hardly knows 25 whether he is honest or not. Fielding.
Without affecting stoicism, it may be said that it is our business to exempt ourselves as much as we can from the power of external things. Johnson.
Without cheerfulness no man can be a poet. Emerson.
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Addison.
Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. Goethe.
Without economy none can be rich, and with 30 it few can be poor. Johnson.
Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. Hitopadesa.
Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. Ecclus.
Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things. Arist.
Without God in the world. St. Paul.
Without great men, great crowds of people in 35 a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas—the more, the worse. Emerson.
Without great men nothing can be done. Renan.
Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. Froude.
Without me ye can do nothing. Jesus to his disciples.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility. Amiel.
Without passion there is no geniality. Mommsen. 40
Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals. Voltaire.
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Matthew Arnold.
Without real masters you cannot have servants. Carlyle.
Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. Matthew Arnold.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact 45 teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. I. Disraeli.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joubert.
Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living. Thomas à Kempis.
Without were fightings, within were fears. St. Paul.
Without wonder there is no faith. Jean Paul.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them 5 within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. Phædr.
Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be wise and true we all are, under the terriblest penalties. Carlyle.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Bacon.
Wo der Teufel nicht hin mag; da send er seinen Boten hin—Where the devil cannot come, he will send his messenger. Ger. Pr.
Wo fasse ich dich, unendliche Natur?—Where can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? Goethe.
Wo grosse Höh', ist grosse Tiefe—Where there 10 is great height there is great depth. Schiller.
Wo innen Sklaverei ist, wird sie von aussen bald kommen—Where there is slavery in the heart, it will soon show itself in the outward conduct. Seume.
Wo man singet, lass dich ruhig nieder, / Ohne Furcht, was man am Lande glaubt; / Wo man singet wird kein Mensch beraubt; / Bösewichter haben keine Lieder—Where people sing, there quietly settle, never fearing what may be the belief of the people of the land. Where people sing, nobody will be robbed. Bad people have no songs. Seume.
Wo viel Freiheit, ist viel Irrthum—Where there is much freedom there is much error. Schiller.
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten—The shadow is deeper where the light is strong. Goethe.
Wo viel zu wagen ist, ist viel zu wägen—Where 15 there is much to risk, there is much to consider. Platen.
Woe does the heavier sit / Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. Rich. II., i. 3.
Woe, that too late repents. King Lear, i. 4.
Woe to every sort of culture which destroys the most effectual means of all true culture, and directs us to the end, instead of rendering us happy on the way. Goethe.
Woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Bible.
Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child. 20 Rich. III., ii. 3.
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. Hamerton.
Woe unto you when all men speak well of you. Jesus.
Woe, woe to youth, to life, which idly boasts, / I am the End, and mine the appointed Way. Lewis Morris.
Wohl unglückselig ist der Mann, / Der unterlässt das, was er kann, / Und unterfängt sich, was er nicht versteht; / Kein Wunder, dass er zu Grunde geht—Unhappy indeed is the man who leaves off doing what he can do, and undertakes to do what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to no good. Goethe.
Wohlgethan überlebt den Tod—Well-done outlives 25 death. Ger. Pr.
Wohlthätigheit kennt keinen Unterschied der Nation—Charity knows no distinction of nation. Count Moltke.
Wollt ihr auf Menschen wirken, / Müsst ihr erst Menschen werden—Would you have an influence over men, you must first become men. Sallet.
Wollt ihr immer leben?—Would you live for ever? Frederick the Great to his guards, on their complaining of what they thought exposure to unnecessary danger.
Wolves in sheep's clothing. Jesus, of false prophets.
Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection. 30 Schiller.
Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave. Goethe.
Woman endeavours to breed her daughter a fine lady, qualifying her for a station in which she will never appear, and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is destined. Lady Montagu.
Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself, and what she has of heart and happiness, in the object she loves. Jean Paul.
Woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. Amiel.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every 35 breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Whately.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends. Goethe.
Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse; could we make her as the man, / Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not like to like, but like in difference. Tennyson.
Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. Bulwer Lytton.
Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them be all sacred. Burns.
Woman is the lesser man. Tennyson. 40
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. Amiel.
Woman is too soft to hate permanently; even if a hundred men have been a grief to her, she will still love the hundred and first. G. Kinkel.
Woman, last at the cross and earliest at the grave. E. S. Barret.
Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. Soc.
Woman sees deep; man sees far. To the man 45 the world is his heart; to the woman the heart is her world. Grabbe.
Woman's at best a contradiction still. Pope.
Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink / Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free. Tennyson.
Woman's counsel is not worth much, yet he that despises it is no wiser than he should be. Cervantes.
Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and her pleasure, in the welfare of her family. Rousseau.
Woman's fear and love hold quantity; / In neither aught, or in extremity. Ham., iii. 2.
Woman's function is a guiding, not a determining one. Ruskin.
Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent. Joanna Baillie.
Woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone—what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. Thackeray.
Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will 5 still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. Bovee.
Woman's power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. Ruskin.
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. Bovee.
Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. Mme. Necker.
Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments, which sound best in a room; but man's that of wind instruments, which sound best in the open air. Jean Paul.
Woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. 10 Eusden.
Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is, that their persons are like their hearts—they read another's better than they can their own. Jean Paul.
Women and clergymen have so long been in the habit of using pretty words without troubling themselves to understand them, that they now revolt from the effort, as if it were impiety. Ruskin.
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered. Jean Paul.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.
Women are born worshippers. Carlyle. 15
Women are confined within the narrow limits of domestic assiduity, and when they stray beyond them they move beyond their sphere, and consequently without grace. Goldsmith.
Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men. La Bruyère.
Women are like limpets, they need something to hold on by. Sigma.
Women are the poetry of the world, in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind. Hargrave.
Women bestow on friendship only what they 20 borrow from love. Chamfort.
Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker. Buckle.
Women exceed the generality of men in love. La Bruyère.
Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of men's. Goldsmith.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. T. C. Haliburton.
Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance 25 which qualifies them to endure beyond, much beyond, the common run of men, but ... they are by no means famous for seeing remote consequences in all their real importance. Burns.
Women, it has been observed, are not naturally formed for great cares themselves, but to soften ours. Goldsmith.
Women judge women hardly; ... they have no shading, / No softening tints, no generous allowance / For circumstance to make the picture human, / And true because so human. Dr. Walter Smith.
Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do. Thackeray.
Women, like princes, find few real friends. Lord Lyttleton.
Women, like the plants in woods, derive their 30 softness and tenderness from the shade. Landor.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.
Women, priests, and poultry have never enough. Pr.
Women should learn betimes to serve according to station, for by serving alone she at last attains to the mastery, to the due influence which she ought to possess in the household. Goethe.
Women that are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanour which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. Colton.
Women, though they have the warmest hearts, 35 are no citizens of the world, scarcely citizens of a town or a village, but only of their own home. Jean Paul.
Women who have lost their faith / Are angels who have lost their wings. Dr. Walter Smith.
Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Amiel.
Women's hearts are made of stout leather; there's a plaguy sight of wear in them. Judge Haliburton.
Women's jars breed men's wars. Pr.
Women's rage, like shallow water, / Does 40 but show their hurtless nature; / When the stream seems rough and frowning, / There is still least fear of drowning. Durfey.
Women's sins are not alone the ills they do, / But those that they provoke you to. Dr. Walter Smith.
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise ceases upon experience. South.
Wonder on till truth make all things plain. Mid. N.'s Dream.
"Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause of philosophy." This is quite as true in the progress of the individual as in that of the concrete mind; and the constant aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent. Bulwer Lytton.
Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true book. Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling, yearly needing repair; more like a tilled field, but then a spiritual field; like a spiritual tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to year, and from age to age (we have books that already number some one hundred and fifty human ages); and yearly comes its new produce of leaves (commentaries, deductions, philosophical, political systems, or were it only sermons, pamphlets, journalistic essays), every one of which is talismanic and thaumaturgic, for it can persuade men. Carlyle.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Carlyle.
Woodman, spare that tree! / Touch not a single bough! / In youth it sheltered me, / And I'll protect it now. G. P. Morris.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Emerson.
Words are but poor interpreters in the realms 5 of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power. H. R. Haweis.
Words are but wind, but seein's believin'. Sc. Pr.
Words are fools' pence. Pr.
Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.
Words are like leaves, and when they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope.
Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they 10 show / Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been. Bailey.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. Izaak Walton.
Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry; imagination the life of it. Owen Feltham.
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more. Bailey.
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Byron.
Words are wise men's counters, but they are 15 the money of fools. Hobbes.
Words are women, deeds are men. George Herbert.
Words become luminous when the finger of the poet touches them with his phosphorus. Joubert.
Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor harbour. Feltham.
Words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the soul within. Tennyson.
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and 20 current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. Southern.
Words of love are works of love. W. R. Alger.
Words pay no debts. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.
Words that are now dead were once alive. A. Coles.
Words, "those fickle daughters of the earth," are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. Colton.
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath 25 give. Macb., ii. 1.
Words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring. Whipple.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Ham., iii. 3.
Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes. W. v. Humboldt.
Work alone is noble. Carlyle.
"Work and wait," "Work and wait," is what 30 God says to us in creation and in providence. J. G. Holland.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. Carlyle.
Work first, you are God's servants; fee first, you are the fiend's. Ruskin.
Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine. Carlyle.
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it. J. G. Holland.
Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; / 35 Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; / Labour! all labour is noble and holy: / Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. Francis S. Osgood.
Work, go, fall, rise, speak, be silent! In this manner do the rich sport with those needy men, who are held by the grip of dependence. Hitopadesa.
Work is for the living. Carlyle.
Work is not man's punishment; it is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. George Sand.
Work is of a religious nature,—work is of a brave nature, which it is the aim of all religion to be. "All work of man is as the swimmer's." A waste ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, behold how it loyally supports him,—bears him as its conqueror along! "It is so," says Goethe, "with all things that man undertakes in this world." Carlyle.
Work is only done well when it is done with 40 a will. Ruskin.
Work is our business; its success is God's. Ger. Pr.
Work is the cure for all the maladies and miseries of man—honest work, which you intend getting done. Carlyle.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. Tolstoi.
Work is the mission of man on this planet. Carlyle.
Work is the only universal currency which God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend on its ability to master the world; that, on power of work; that, on its power of thought. Theodore Parker.
Work, properly so called, is an appeal from the Seen to the Unseen—a devout calling upon Higher Powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery. Carlyle.
Work till the last beam fadeth, / Fadeth to shine no more; / Work while the night is darkening, / When man's work is o'er. Walker.
Work touches the keys of endless activity, 5 opens the infinite, and stands awe-struck before the immensity of what there is to do. Phillips Brooks.
Work was made for man, and not man for work. J. G. Holland.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, / And hope without an object cannot live. Coleridge.
Work, work, work, / Till the brain begins to swim; / Work, work, work, / Till the eyes are heavy and dim; / Seam, and gusset, and band, / Band, and gusset, and seam, / Till over the buttons I fall asleep, / And sew them on in a dream. Hood.
Works of true merit are seldom very popular in their own day; for knowledge is on the march, and men of genius are the "præstolatores" or "videttes," that are far in advance of their comrades. They are not with them, but before them; not in the camp, but beyond it. Colton.
Worldly affairs, which my friends thought so 10 heavy upon me, they are most of them of our own making, and fall away as soon as we know ourselves. Law.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them. R. Venning.
Worse than being fool'd / Of others, is to fool one's self. Tennyson.
Worse than despair, / Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope; / It is the only ill which can find place / Upon the giddy, sharp, and narrow hour / Tottering beneath us. Shelley.
Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is no limit or measure. Carlyle.
Worship that is false will kill the soul as 15 quickly as no worship. Saying.
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. Mme. Necker.
Worte sind der Seele Bild—Words are the soul's magic. Goethe.
Worte sind gut, wenn Werke folgen—Words are good if works follow. Ger. Pr.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunello. Pope.
Worth many thousand is the first salute; / 20 Him that salutes thee, therefore, friendly greet. Goethe.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates.
Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! Balzac.
Would we but pledge ourselves to truth as heartily as we do to a real or imaginary mistress, and think life too short only because it abridges our time of service, what a new world we should have! Lowell.
Would we but quit ourselves like men, and resolutely stand our ground, we should not fail of succours from above. Thomas à Kempis.
Would Wisdom for herself be wooed, / And 25 wake the foolish from his dream, / She must be glad as well as good, / And must not only be, but seem. Coventry Patmore.
Would you have men think well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. Pascal.
Wouldst thou a maiden make thy prize, / Thyself alone the bribe must be. Goethe.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? George Herbert.
Wouldst thou know thyself, then see how others act; wouldst thou understand others, look thou into thine own heart. Schiller.
Wouldst thou plant for eternity? then plant 30 into the deep infinite faculties of man, his fantasy and heart. Wouldst thou plant for year and day? then plant into his shallow superficial faculties, his self-love and arithmetical understanding, what will grow there. Carlyle.
"Wouldst thou," so the helmsman answered, / "Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!" Longfellow.
Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to reason. Seneca.
Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? / Nor human wisdom nor divine / Helps thee by aught beside to learn; / Love is life's only sign. Keble.
Wouldst thou travel the path of truth and goodness? Never deceive either thyself or others. Goethe.
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, 35 and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. Charron.
Wounds cannot be cured without searching. Bacon.
Wrap thyself up like a woodlouse, and dream revenge. Congreve.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Pr.
Write how you will, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Goldsmith.
Write, so much given to God; thou shalt be 40 heard. George Herbert.
Write thy wrongs in ashes. Sir T. Browne.
Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers—they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. Mary Wortley Montagu.
Writing is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said; and that pleasure is only given when the words are carefully or curiously or beautifully put together into sentences. Stopford Brooke.
Written all of it (Christianity) in us already in sympathetic ink. Bible awakens it, and you can read. Dr. Chalmers to Carlyle in conversation.
Wrong is not only different from right, but it is in strict scientific terms infinitely different. Carlyle.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. It implies a discovery of weaknesses, which we are much more careful to conceal than crimes. Many a man will confess his crimes to a common friend, but I never knew a man who would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. Chesterfield.
Würf er einen Groschen auf's Dach, fiel ihm 5 ein Thaler herunter—If he threw a penny up, a dollar came down. Ger. Pr.
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Jesus to his disciples.
Ye are the light of the world. Jesus to his disciples.
Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. Job.
Ye are the salt of the earth. Jesus to his disciples.
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and 10 swallow a camel. Jesus.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Jesus.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; / The clouds ye so much dread / Are big with mercy, and shall break / In blessings on your head. Cowper.
Ye gentlemen of England / That live at home at ease, / Ah! little do you think upon / The dangers of the seas. Martyn Parker.
Ye gods, it doth amaze me / A man of such a feeble temper should / So get the start of the majestic world / And bear the palm alone. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Ye good yeomen, whose limbs were made in 15 England. Hen. V., iii. 1.
Ye hae a stalk o' carl-hemp in you. Sc. Pr.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. Jesus to his disciples.
Ye mariners of England, / That guard our native seas, / Whose flag has braved a thousand years / The battle and the breeze. Campbell.
Ye may darken over the blue heavens, ye vapoury masses in the sky. It matters not! Beyond the howling of that wrath, beyond the blackness of those clouds, there shines, unaltered and serene, the moon that shone in Paradise.... The moon that promises a paradise restored. Mrs. Gatty.
Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the 20 face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown, read in the everlasting book, wide open to your view, the lesson it would teach. Its pictures are not in black and sombre hues, but bright and glowing tints; its music—save when ye drown it—is not in sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful sounds. Listen to the million voices in the summer air, and find one dismal as your own. Dickens.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Jesus.
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!... In our aspirations to be great, / Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, / And claim a kindred with you; for ye are / A beauty and a mystery, and create / In us such love and reverence from afar, / That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. Byron.
Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg / The murmur of the world. Tennyson.
Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, / And muckle they may grieve ye. Burns.
Yea, let all good things await / Him who cares 25 not to be great, / But as he saves or serves the state. Tennyson.
Yea, surely the sea like a harper laid hand on the shore as a lyre. Swinburne.
Year chases year, decay pursues decay, / Still drops some joy from withering life away. Johnson.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men. Mme. Swetchine.
Years following years steal something every day; / At last they steal us from ourselves away. Pope.
Years steal / Fire from the mind as vigour 30 from the limb, / And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. Byron.
Yes, there are things we must dream and dare, / And execute ere thought be half aware. Byron.
Yes, you find people ready enough to do the good Samaritan without the oil and twopence. Sydney Smith.
Yet a little while, and we shall all meet there, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot harm us any more. Carlyle.