W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.”
Source: Poetry and Tales
“When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.”
“When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)
“When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.”
“When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.”
“When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.”
Source: Bring Up the Bodies
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”
Source: WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Jimmyjohn Boss, Napoleon Shave-Tail, Hank's Woman, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Padre Ignacio and more: Historical Novels, Adventures and Romances, Including the First Cowboy Novel Set in the Wild West
“When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.”
Source: Marriage and Divorce
“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.”
“When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.”
Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
“When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.”
“When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.”
“When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.”
Source: Jephte's Daughter
“When a man angers you, he conquers you.”
“When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?”
“When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.”
“When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”
“When a man asks you to run away with him, it is almost always because he is afraid of what will happen if you take too long to think him through.”
Source: The Past Is Red
“When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.”
“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”
“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”
“When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.”
“When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!”
“When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.”
“When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.”
“When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.”
Source: The spectator
“When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.”
“When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.”
“When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.”
“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”
“When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.”
“When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.”
Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
“When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.”
“When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.”
“When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.”
“When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.”
“When a man can’t accept rejection, there’s no such thing as letting him down easy. So just accept the fact that he might call you a mean, stuck up B! among other things depending on how bruised his ego is over you politely saying you’re not interested. It’s not you- it’s him.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.”
Source: The Cavalier's Cup
“When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.”
“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.”
“When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.”
“When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.”
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”
Source: Saga, Volume 1
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.”