Best Flora Whittemore Quotes: The most famous quotes by Flora Whittemore
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. — Flora Whittemore
Best John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these ‘It might have been’ — John Greenleaf Whittier
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. — John Greenleaf Whittier
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight… Not people die but worlds die in them. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Best Faith Whittlesey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Faith Whittlesey
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. — Faith Whittlesey
Best Charlotte Whitton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charlotte Whitton
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. — Charlotte Whitton
Best Dennis Wholey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dennis Wholey
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey
Best Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes: The most famous quotes by Benjamin Lee Whorf
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Best Lord John Whorfin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord John Whorfin
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark. — Lord John Whorfin
Best George John Whyte-Melville Quotes: The most famous quotes by George John Whyte-Melville
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. — George John Whyte-Melville
In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. — George John Whyte-Melville
Best Robert Wibbelsman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Wibbelsman
The problem with the person who thinks he’s a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly. — Robert Wibbelsman
Best Mike Wickett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mike Wickett
Life doesn’t happen to us, it happens from us. — Mike Wickett
Best Emil Wiechert Quotes: The most famous quotes by Emil Wiechert
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small. — Emil Wiechert
Best Paul Wiener Quotes: The most famous quotes by Paul Wiener
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. — Paul Wiener
I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues’ indifference, over my patron’s ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride. — Paul Wiener
Best Warren Wiersbe Quotes: The most famous quotes by Warren Wiersbe
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don’t complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. — Warren Wiersbe
Best Elie Wiesel Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elie Wiesel
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. — Elie Wiesel
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them. — Elie Wiesel
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. — Elie Wiesel
There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. — Elie Wiesel
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. — Elie Wiesel
Best Leon Wieseltier Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leon Wieseltier
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. — Leon Wieseltier
Best Albert Wiggam Quotes: The most famous quotes by Albert Wiggam
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. — Albert Wiggam
Best Alfred E. Wiggam Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred E. Wiggam
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. — Alfred E. Wiggam
Best Eliot Wiggington Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eliot Wiggington
Life just isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke. — Eliot Wiggington
Best Eugene Paul Wigner Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eugene Paul Wigner
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. — Eugene Paul Wigner
Best Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And from the discontent of one man The world’s best progress springs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood – no more – to a man, And love to a woman is life or death. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Best Frederick Wilcox Quotes: The most famous quotes by Frederick Wilcox
Progress always involves risk you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base. — Frederick Wilcox
Best Ron Wild Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ron Wild
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. — Ron Wild
Best Larry Wilde Quotes: The most famous quotes by Larry Wilde
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends. — Larry Wilde
Best Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Quotes: The most famous quotes by Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
When good Americans die they go to Paris. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything and when they grow older, they know it. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
To love one’s self is the beginning of a life-long romance. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Always love your enemies–nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
The basis for optimism is sheer terror. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
No, Ernest, don’t talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Best Oscar Wilde Quotes: The most famous quotes by Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. — Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. — Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. — Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front. — Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. — Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. — Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. — Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. — Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword — Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. — Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. — Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. — Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. — Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything. — Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. — Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. — Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. — Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde
Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. — Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. — Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace. — Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. — Oscar Wilde
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. — Oscar Wilde
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. — Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. — Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries — Oscar Wilde
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. — Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. — Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. — Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. — Oscar Wilde
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. — Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. — Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything but temptation. — Oscar Wilde
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. — Oscar Wilde
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. — Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for. — Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Oscar Wilde
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. — Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves. — Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. — Oscar Wilde
But what is the difference between literature and journalism …Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. — Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. — Oscar Wilde
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. — Oscar Wilde
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. — Oscar Wilde
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. — Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. — Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. — Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. — Oscar Wilde
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. — Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. — Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. — Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. — Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. — Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs. — Oscar Wilde
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. — Oscar Wilde
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. — Oscar Wilde
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. — Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. — Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. — Oscar Wilde
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. — Oscar Wilde
Best Billy Wilder Quotes: The most famous quotes by Billy Wilder
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. — Billy Wilder
Best Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes: The most famous quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Best Thornton Wilder Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thornton Wilder
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for… — Thornton Wilder
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. — Thornton Wilder
Best Robert Wilensky Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Wilensky
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. — Robert Wilensky
Best Tim Wiley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Tim Wiley
Where you end up isn’t the most important thing. It’s the road you take to get you there. The road you take is what you’ll look back on And call your life. Not reaching success isn’t the end of the world. Not trying to reach it is. — Tim Wiley
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