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"It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." »Jane Hamilton
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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." »Frances Willard
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"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself." »Herbert Clark Hoover
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." »Elizabeth Hardwick
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"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves." »George Eliot
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"A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." »Karen Burka
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"Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer." »Omar Khayyam
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism." »Charles M. Schwab
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"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius
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"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." »Anonymous
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"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire
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"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." »L. Frank Baum
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"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." »Charles Luckman
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"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." »Roger Babson
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer
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"Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative." »Lu Yen
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"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." »Frank Shutts
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin
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"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer
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"In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee." »Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
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"It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task." »Virgil
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"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." »Joseph J. Lamb
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