W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare
“Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!”
Source: Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems
“Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Who sows fear, reaps weapons.”
“Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.”
“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”
“Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.”
Source: Who Speaks for God?
“Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.”
“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting”
“Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.”
“Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.”
“Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
“Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song;
she'd wage war with her voice instead.
'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said.”
Source: The Owl and the Nightingale
“Who spit in your porridge?”
Source: Between the Lines
“Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“Who stands before us today with a pure conscience? Have we not all, at some time, committed a crime in thought or in deed?”
Source: The Missionary
“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God- the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?”
“Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.”
Source: I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility
“Who steals my purse, steals trash.”
“Who stomped on you? You don’t look like the type to take a beating lightly.”
Source: Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions
“Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?”
Source: He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts
“Who strive not for objects unattainable, grieve not for what lost and gone be,
Who suffer not mind clouded amid mishap, have intellect with wisdom truly.
[26] - 33 Mahatma Vidur”
Source: Wisdom of Mahatma Vidur & Chanakya: in English Rhyme
“Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.”
“Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!”
“Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.”
Source: The Essential Bennis
“Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.”
Source: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.”
Source: The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc
“Who takes care of their people better? FEMA or Hezbollah?”
“Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?”
“Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of millions of people, or close to one billion, to be precise. They have been looting, torturing and raping. Even now, they are killing millions directly and tens of millions indirectly.”
“Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?”
“Who talks much, must talk in vain.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author
“Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?”
“Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“Who taught you how to discern the Truth? Was it a big liar or a little liar or no liar at all? We cannot expect honesty from those we deal with if we don’t even know how to tell when we’re being lied to.”
“Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?”
“Who taught you to hate yourself?”
“Who taught you to speak the language of the desert and the wind?"
"My heart, the boy answered.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body.”
Source: Written On The Body
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.”
“Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.”
“Who teaches the soul if not God?”
“Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.”
Source: Last Tales
“Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?”
Source: Books and Men
“Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse
“Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?”
Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume
“Who that man in the black Sedan
With two cheap hookers and a Mexican
Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light
Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right”