W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.”
“When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.”
“When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.”
“When a man gets more than he deserves he becomes greedy.”
“When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.”
Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“When a man gets serious about changing he has to be willing to look at the choices he is making every day, from the most trivial to the most significant.
He has to accept that no one and nothing other than him is determining what he does. If he backslides into drinking, if he returns to abusive behavior, if he cheats on his partner, it's because that's what he decided to do. In short:
His change depends on his willingness to accept complete responsibility for his own actions. He has to stop blaming them on you, on his addic tion, on his childhood, or on anything else.”
Source: The Joyous Recovery: A New Approach to Emotional Healing and Wellness
“When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“When a man gets to be as old as I am, one of his greatest fears begins to be that he shall one day find himself alone in the world. It is no small thing therefore, for him to be told by one he loves, that his presence is important to them.”
Source: Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore
“When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.”
“When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.”
Source: 3 Books by Laurence Sterne
“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
“When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“When a man goes into his cave he is generally trying to solve a problem. If his mate is happy or not needy at this time, then he has one less problem to solve before coming out. Knowing that she is happy with him also gives him more strength to deal with his problem while in the cave.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.”
“When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.”
“When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!”
“When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.”
“When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.”
Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“When a man grows old in knowledge, he speaks but a little; not for the absence of what to say, but how to say it so that other men may comprehend.”
“When a man grumbles it is a good sign - he is trying to consider your request versus his needs.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.”
“When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.”
“When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.”
“When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.”
Source: Killosophy
“When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.”
“When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.”
“When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.”
Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.”
“When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.”
Source: The Stand
“When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.”
“When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.”
“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.”
Source: The Bookseller of Kabul
“When a man has forfeited fellowship at the feet of the cross, he has forfeited all.”
“When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.”
“When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.”
“When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.”
“when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.”
Source: Hasidism and modern man
“When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”
Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume
“When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.”
“When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.”
Source: The Way To God: Moody Classics Series
“When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.”
“When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek his face in vain.”
Source: Lectures on Faith