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 wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”
Source: Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3
“When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.”
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
“When a man who is unaware that he has lost his way encounters a wiseman who knows all the ways, He will continue to walk without asking the wise man anything!”
“When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.”
“When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.”
Source: Lectures on Faith
“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
“When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.”
Source: The Steel Remains
“When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.”
Source: Nods and Becks
“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.”
Source: Dramatic Romances
“When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.”
“When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.”
Source: The Infinite Plan: A Novel
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”
“When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?”
“When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.”
Source: The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living
“When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.”
“When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.”
“When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.”
“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
Source: The Study of Sociology
“When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
[Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]”
“When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.”
Source: Spinoza's Ethics and
“When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.”
“When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.”
“When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
“When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade”
“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
“When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.”
“When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.”
“When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
“When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.”
“When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.”
“When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.”
Source: Theosophy
“When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.”
“When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.”
“When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.”
“When a manager becomes a coach, potential stops being theoretical, it becomes visible.”
“When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.”
“When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.”
“When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.”
Source: Mannerism
“When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.”
“When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.”
“When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet are not familiar with God’s ways – when his tongue is seldom or never used in prayer and praise – when his eyes are blind to the beauty of the kingdom of heaven – when his mind is full of the world, and has no room for spiritual things – when these marks are to be found in a man the word of the Bible is the right word to use about him, and that word is, ‘Dead.’”
Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity
“When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“When a market makes a historic high, it is telling you something. No matter how many people tell you why the market shouldn't be that high, or why nothing has changed, the mere fact that the price is at a new high tells you something has changed.”