W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?”
“What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.”
“What man is a man who does not make the world better.”
“What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.”
“What man is interested in someone else’s baby? First and foremost, that baby is the living embodiment of some other male’s success in mating. Mating is our biological imperative and the father of the wretched thing won; beat us in this biological imperative. We’re the loser. We’ve let him succeed in perpetuating his genes.”
Source: The Testosterone Principles 2: Manhood and Other Stuff
“What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.”
“What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?”
Source: Suttree
“What man is such a coward he would rather not fall once than stand forever tottering? Most people totter their whole lives. They never let themselves fall, never take the hit. They just go along, trying to do what they think they're supposed to. They never try to find out what's true for them, because that would mean being brave in a way people aren't.”
Source: This Raging Light
“What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck
“What man is, only his history tells.”
“What man is, only history tells.”
“What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.”
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.”
Source: Truth and Method
“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.”
“What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?”
“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”
Source: Dreamtigers
“What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it”
Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.”
Source: Escape from Evil
“What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.”
“What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.”
“What man’s not guilty? It’s taken you a long time to learn
That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays
“What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
As to descry the crafty cunning train,
By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
The guiltless man with guile to entertain?”
Source: Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
“What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel
Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.”
“What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?”
“What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.”
“What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?”
Source: West of Sunset
“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“What man who has lived for more than a score of years desires justice, warrior? For my part, I find mercy infinitely more attractive. Give me a forgiving deity any day.”
Source: Lord of Light
“What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?”
Source: Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III
“What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?”
Source: Under Heaven
“What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. "You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.”
Source: Rise
“What man would not want such a woman? Not one to follow only, but to stand beside him during the dark days, to work with him, plan with him, share with him, making their life a whole thing together.”
Source: High Lonesome
“What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?”
Source: Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges
“What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?”
“What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?”
“What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.”
“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.
What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.”
“What mankind can dream
research and technology can achieve”
“What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.”
“What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”
“What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?”
“What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.”
Source: Spelled
“What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7
“What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?”
Source: Childbirth Without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.”
Source: One Man Caravan
“What manner of woman runs off in a snowstorm?” It was a rhetorical question as much as one he truly wished an answer to.
“One who d-does n-not w-wish to be indoors,” she mumbled.”
Source: To Tempt a Scoundrel
“What mannerisms I present, employ,
Are camouflage, and what my mouths remark
To word-wall off that broadness of the dark
Is pitiful,
I am not brave at all.”
Source: Selected poems
“What many bakers don't realise is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of bread baking is in the manipulation and the fermentation. What has been lost....is this method.”