W Quotes
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“Whoever has the slightest of desires, cannot be called God!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.”
“Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.”
“Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ s kingdom:;; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication
“Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”
“Whoever hate, harm himself.”
“Whoever hates, harm.”
“Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.”
“Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
Source: The Devil's Trinity
“Whoever he was or whatever he was and no matter how different and crazy he seemed, he was not crazy.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.”
Source: The Second Part of The Beggars Opera ...
“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”
“Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.”
“Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?”
Source: Rubyfruit Jungle
“Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians.”
“Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary... Humanity will, of course, change; human society will, of course, continue to develop - in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.”
“Whoever holds the keys to house of knowledge, must open the door, for those who search for light of knowledge to enter.”
“Whoever honoured the word of God shall be blessed.”
“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”
Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?
“Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.”
“Whoever I had become had to die.”
“Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out.”
“Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.”
“Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Whoever imitates a people is one of them.”
“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.”
“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”
“Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.”
“Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.”
“Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.”
Source: Trial of C.B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, at Morristown, N.J., May 19th and 20th, 1887
“Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the question of personal freedom are two different questions and are not mutually exclusive. Individual goodness will always abide, because it is a personal need, a living need for the direct influence of one person on another.
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In sowing your seed, in sowing your 'charity,' your good deed in whatever form it takes, you give away part of your person and receive into yourself part of another's; you mutually commune in each other; a little more attention, and you will be rewarded with knowledge, with the most unexpected discoveries. You will be bound, finally, to look at your work as a science; it will take in the whole of your life and maybe fill the whole of it. On the other hand, all your thoughts, all the seeds you have sown, which you may already have forgotten, will take on flesh and grow; what was received from you will be passed on to someone else. And how do you know what share you will have in the future outcome of human destiny? And if the knowledge and the whole life of this work finally raises you so high that you are able to plant a tremendous seed, to bequeath a tremendous thought to mankind, then...”
Source: The Idiot
“Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.”
“Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.”
“Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!”
“Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.”
“Whoever invented knock-knock jokes should get a no-bell prize.”
Source: Gags and Extracts
“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Whoever invented men had definitely not ironed out all the kinks.”
Source: The House on the Hill
“Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.”
“Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.”
“Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.”
“Whoever invented the bowtie obviously never had to tie one.”
Source: Eden: An AA McCay Novel
“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”
“Whoever invented the spork should be killed.”
Source: Bruiser
“Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Whoever investigates the past, honours the future - Kās senatni pētī, nākotni svētī”
“Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.”
Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism