W Quotes
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“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”
“When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
“When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.”
“When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.”
“When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.”
“When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.”
“When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.”
“When Franklin D. Roosevelt launched Social Security in 1935, he did not present it as expressing the mutual obligation of citizens to one another. ... Rather than offer a communal rationale, FDR argued that such rights were essential to "true individual freedom," adding, "necessitous men are not free men.”
Source: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.”
Source: The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists
“When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn’t agreeing with you. He’s just listening to you.”
Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
“When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.”
“When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.”
“When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.”
“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”
“When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.”
Source: THE CULPRIT FAY
“When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?”
“When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“When freedom is the goal, responsibleness is the way. One cannot exist without another.”
Source: A Missing Drop: Free Your Mind From Conditioning And Reconnect To Your Truest Self
“When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.”
“When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.”
“When Freemasons vainglory on their deeds during the French Revolution, they forget that many innocents paid with their own life for that, including pregnant women and children from the royal families, and those that have witness it didn't forget, and will likewise turn the karma back on them in the years to come, making their innocents pay for the guilty ones.”
“When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.”
“When Friday Night Lights finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.”
“When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.”
“When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.”
“When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“When friends are in trouble, America Helps.”
“When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.”
Source: The best laid plans
“When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.”
“When friends disappoint you, there's no point in trying any more.”
“When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."”
“When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.”
Source: The works of Washington Irving
“When friends meet, hearts warm.”
Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases
“When friends share propaganda, truth will sorely hide behind the glossy pictures of lies.”
“When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.”
“When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.”
“When friends stopped coming by, the days were upset by it, the redundancy of routine, once altered, needed to find new distractions, like puzzle pieces that need connection in order to form a whole.”
Source: Lies a River Deep
“When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!”
“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)
“When friendship is fully in place in marriage, you would have very little to worry about.”
“When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgement.”
Source: Letters From A Stoic | Moral Letters To Lucilius
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
Source: Essays, First Series
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.”
“When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.”
“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.”
Source: The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)
“When from out of error’s darkness
With a word both sure and ardent
I had drawn the fallen soul,
And you, filled with deepest torment,
Cursed the vice that had ensnared you
And so doing wrung your hands;
When, punishing with recollection
Forgetful conscience, you then told
The tale of all that went before me,
And suddenly you hid your face
In trembling hands and, filled with horror,
Filled with shame, dissolved in tears,
Indignant as you were, and shaken…
Etc., etc., etc.”