Found 218 quotes starting with WI:

Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive. – Sa?di
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. – Homer
Wife: a former sweetheart. – H. L. Mencken
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again. – H. L. Mencken
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony Froude
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. – David Assael
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice... – Marquis de Sade, Justine
Will the day tell its secret before it disappears, becomes timeless night. – Dejan Stojanovic
Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Will you treat people who make you miserable as prison guards, or travel agents? – Leslie Miklosy
Will your child learn to multiply before she learns to subtract – Children's Defense Fund
William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses. – William Cecil Burleigh
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. – Socrates
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. – Ovid
Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. – Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. – Samuel Johnson
Winners never quit and quitters never win. – Vince Lombardi
Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. – Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph"
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. – Phil Jackson
Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is. – Catfish Hunter
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. – Rachel Blanchard
Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. – Victor Hugo
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather, My Antonia
Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom. – Plato
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. – William Wordsworth
Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. – Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Wisdom comes with winters. – Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next. – Herbert Clark Hoover
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. – Francis Hutcheson
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. – Seneca
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. – Abigail Van Buren
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself. – Woodrow Wilson
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. – Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know. – Yula Moses
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it. – David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. – David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. – Paul Engle
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. – Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. – Horace
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. – William Wordsworth
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation. – Sid Taylor
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you. – Proverbs 47-8
Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. – Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. – Sophocles
Wisdom is using knowledge through God's perspective. – Tom Zegan
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. – Cullen Hightower
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat. – Caecilius Statius
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. – Sophocles
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter
Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. – William Arthur Ward
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. – William Arthur Ward
Wise man and river; they both create new paths! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be. – Author Unknown
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men. – Michel de Montaigne
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. – Samuel Palmer
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. – Cato the Elder
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. – Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something. – Saul Bellow
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something. – Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. – Napolean Hill
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Sir Arthur Helps
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. – Sir Arthur Helps
Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more. – Bryant McGill
Wish not so much to live long as to live well. – Benjamin Franklin
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit. – Aristotle
Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends. – John Selden
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. – Overlung
Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. – Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
Wit is the lowest form of humor. – Alexander Pope
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. – Mark van Doren
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade. – Noel Coward
With a good heart, you can win many battles! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With abstract of all the chain reactions of our lives, love is what makes stories of lives much more cruel.. – The wise Pharoah Moe
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. – Charles Dickens
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. – Clarence Darrow
With all your soul, you can do something which not be designed for you. – Woody Haldrugold
With all your soul, you can do something which not be designed for you. – Woody Haldrugold
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. – Confucius
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. – Will Rogers
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle. – French Proverb
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. – Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. – P. J. O'Rourke
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. – Oprah Winfrey
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With foxes we must play the fox. – Thomas Fuller
With free mind, is there anything that you can not create? With unfree mind, is there anything that you can create? – Mehmet Murat ildan
With great power comes great responsibility. – Stan Lee, Spider-Man comic
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! – J. R. R. Tolkien
With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With just enough of learning to misquote. – Lord Byron
With knowledge, say, what other wealth Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey, Which, lavished, never wastes away. – Sanskrit Proverb
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. – Daisaku Ideda
With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling. – Britney Spears
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. – Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground. – Longfellow
With me, are many rivers to cross – Pauline Musariri
With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference. – Dejan Stojanovic
With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. – Jewish Proverb
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
With one kiss, one can be pleased, so stop wasting time and please me already.Give me that kiss I need and want...Thank Youu x3 :) – Adelayda Pinto
With open eyes, you watch; with closed eyes, you see. – Dejan Stojanovic
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg
With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see. – Ronald Reagan
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. – William Lloyd Garrison
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. – William Lloyd Garrison
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. – William Lloyd Garrison
With regard to a secret divulged and kept concealed, there is an excellent proverb, that the one is an arrow still in our possession, the other is an arrow sent from the bow. – Jami
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. – Aristotle
With silence favor me. – Horace
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis) – Horace
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. – James Grover Thurber
With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. – Friedrich von Schiller
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. – Friedrich von Schiller
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. – Abraham Lincoln
With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech unsanctioned, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably. – Aaron Satie
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. – Catherine de Hueck
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – Peter Fleming
With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks! – Mehmet Murat ildan
With the things you can't remember there's usually a reason you let yourself forget. – Amanda Madden
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. – Chinese Proverb
With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough. – Chinese Proverb
With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon. – Kevin Smith
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. – Horace
Within a stone's throw of it. – Miguel de Cervantes
Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity. – Napoleon Hill
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. – Sue Atchley Ebaugh
Within the problem lies the solution – Milton Katselas
Within two to three years, we will be talking about patent reform again. You can bank on it. – Yar Chaikovsky
Without a complex knowledge of one’s place and without the faithfulness to one’s place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or “in” group. – Wendell Berry
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. – Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place. – Marrion Zimmer Bradley
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. – Anthony D'Angelo
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. – Frederick Douglas
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. – John Owen
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. – Shunryu Suzuki
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. – Emerson
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. – Confucius
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant. – Kent "Sparky" Gregory
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. – Seneca
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men. – John Calvin
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. – Maya Angelou
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. – Baltasar Gracian
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. – John Schumaker
Without curiosity, all doors remain closed! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Without discipline, there's no life at all. – Katharine Hepburn
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. – Herbert Samuel
Without feedback, good ideas go unnoticed. – Akhan Almagambetov
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. – J. Krishnamurti
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. – Albert Camus
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. – Aristotle
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion. – Lao Tzu
Without justice courage is weak. – Benjamin Franklin
Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. – Confucius
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Without music life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Without nothing, everything would be nothing. – Dejan Stojanovic
Without peaceful international relations, there could be no economic stability and prosperity. On the political front, world leaders and UN veto-holding members could reset their foreign policies and stop burdening their economies and their people with international conflicts. The UN international courts of justice could be responsible for resolving international conflicts. The implementation of this solution requires a strong global leadership vision and action. Unfortunately the US leadership is limited by many conflicting private interest groups and is buried in domestic politics, ideological conflicts, and security issues. It is also unlikely that the global powers will let go of their power voluntarily and the situation will not get better before it gets worse. – Med Jones
Without pleasure there is no sight or measure. – Dejan Stojanovic
Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life. – Hugh McColl, Jr.
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. – Sidney Madwed
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – George Gurdjieff
Without space, there is no time. – Dejan Stojanovic
Without spring, life would be much less pinky! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. – Marlene Dietrich
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. – Sorin Cerin
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. – William Hazlitt
Without the court system, we as a whole, would not reach new heights and better ourselves. – Anonymus
Without the heart the brain cannot survive. Without the brain, though, the heart serves no purpose. – PJ Uppal
Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun. – Thomas Campbell
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. – Louis Pasteur
Without trees, mountains, fogs or rains, the Sun cannot create its own magic! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. – John Harold
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. – Bette Davis
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. – Ruth Hubbard
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. – St. Francis of Assissi
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. – George Gordon Byron

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