W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“who paints the sky will walk on clouds”
“Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton
“Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.”
“Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes?”
“who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.”
“Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone
“Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?”
“Who pissed in your Cheerios?”
Source: Things We Never Got Over
“Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called struggle.”
“Who pleases one against his will.”
“Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Who points the gun?
The shooter or the people behind them?
Just because he had a gun doesn't mean that he was the one pulling the trigger.”
“Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Who prates of war or want after his wine?
[Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]”
“Who, pray, are benefiting by all this waste and confusion? The few, a mere small percentage of the population of the world. All the remainder submit, because they think “it always has been so and it must always be so.” The work of those who have a conception of a true society of the future, must devote all their efforts toward disabusing the people’s minds of the ancient falsehoods. It can be done. Many other hoary lies have passed away, so will this one, too.”
“Who, pray tell, is for leaving the naked unclothed and the hungry without food? Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism advocated caring for the helpless millennia before Marx was born. So, when the Jewish, Christian, or secular Left tell us repeatedly that they are for clothing the naked, they really mean two other things: (1) Their opponents are not for feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and (2) Only those who affirm Left-wing policies are.”
Source: Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
“Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?”
“Who promotes female impersonation the most? Female celebrities. Who protects the rights of female impersonators the most? Female politicians and leaders.
The boys hired the best empowered females in the world to vouch for them. They got them to fight ...not for other females but for the boys disguised as females. Now, that's chess.”
“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?”
“Who put hard work on the shelf next to jobs? That’s what ruined this country.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?”
“Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all the seriousness we learned / and connect with every atom to create / breathtaking beauty with graceful ease.”
“who put this brain inside of me?
it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.
it will not say
"no.”
“Who puts strawberries in a salad? Seriously, is this a thing now? Is it a thing I don't know about? Is it an American thing? It can be. It's freaking me out.”
“Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen - right?”
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”
“Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.”
“Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions
“Who're them?" says he to the curate.
"Them are the fallen angels," says the curate.
They had a human form, no wings. God took the wings off of 'em after Lucifer rebelled - that way they couldn't go back, d'you see. They had no wings. But there was so many of 'em that you couldn't drive a knife down between 'em. They were as thick as hair on a dog's back. They were the finest people he ever seen. And whatever way he looked at 'em, some o' the finest girls he ever seen was in it, he said. They had to be good-looking, you know! 'Twas the sin o' pride put Lucifer down, d'you see. The best-looking angel in Heaven, 'twas the sin o' pride put him down. I s'pose they were nearly all as good-looking.”
Source: Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
“Who're you going with, then?" said Ron.
"Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment.
"What?" said Ron, taken aback. "You've already asked her?"
"Good point," said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, "Oi! Angelina!"
Angelina, who had been chatting with Alicia Spinnet near the fire, looked over at him.
"What?" She called back.
"Want to come to the ball with me?"
Angelina gave Fred a sort of appraising look.
"All right, then," she said, and she turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting with a bit of a grin on her face.
"There you go," said Fred to Harry and Ron, "piece of cake.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.”
Source: Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
“Who reads? Not that I begrudge my life in book. All I know about the world I've learned from them. But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly's lips against mine.”
Source: Everything, Everything
“Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us.”
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.”
“Who realizes what? That is realization.”
“Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.”
Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
“Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?”
“Who really knows, and who can swear,
How creation came, when or where!
Even gods came after creation's day,
Who really knows and who can truly say,
When and how did creation start?
Did He do it? Or did He not?
Only He, up there, knows, maybe;
Or perhaps, not even He.”
“Who really needs a new album from me?”
“Who really understands you? Who wants to hear what you feel? Most people will answer, “No one.” Some few will say “So-and-so would like to hear it, but he can’t understand me really.” Very few people have someone they can share inner experience with, and then only up to a point. And even with yourself: have you not left certain places dark? Without even knowing just why you are scared of them? Or how you would go into them? Being so largely unknown and unseen makes us feel somewhat unreal, as if we exist only to ourselves and perhaps not quite even that.”
Source: Focusing
“Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.”
“Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.”
“Who regulates the heat of the sun? Who pays the bills of the energy we obtain from the sun? Leave all judgments to that man if you believe we all walk under that same sun!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Who reigns up high?
A dead man’s sigh
What sleeps below?
A crown of woe
That is the Tower:
Learn and cower.”
– Extract from ‘And So I Dreamt I Was Awake’, Sherehazad the Seer”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“Who remembers everything about somebody?”
Source: Take Me There
“Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?”
Source: Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors: And Several More Or Less Helpful Essays Bearing Directly on a Variety of Important Matters
“Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.”