W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it.”
Source: An Experiment in Love
“When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.”
Source: Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them
“When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.”
Source: Night Film
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.”
“When men die of disease they are said to die from
natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
the doctor gets the credit of curing them.”
“When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?”
“When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.”
“When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
“When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.”
Source: The tender carnivore and the sacred game
“When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.”
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
“When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil”
“when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.”
“When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.”
“When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
“When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man-not merely a person-has to do with that role.”
“When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“When men fail you, do not grow weary. Have faith in God and He will grant you strength to press on.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“When men fail you, do not grow weary. Have Faith in God and He will grant you the strength to press on.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“When men feel small they are dangerous.”
Source: Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.”
“When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.”
Source: The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time
“When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit acceptance that we're all participants in the oppressive patriarchal structure that create this pressing, everyday anger. Women onscreen are only allowed to be angry at one person, one wrongdoing. Something they can fix. Something that doesn't antagonize audiences too much.”
Source: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
“When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.”
“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...
“When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.”
“When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.”
Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe
“When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.”
“When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.”
“When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.”
Source: THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY
“When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.”
“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.”
“When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.”
Source: Facts and Comments
“When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life.”
“when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.”
Source: What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era
“When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.”
“When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.”
“When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what”
“When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.”
Source: 道德经
“When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.”
Source: The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith
“When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!”
“When men make gods, there is no God!”
“When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.”
“When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.”
“When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]”