Found 146 quotes starting with WO:

Woe be to him that reads but one book. – George Herbert
Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. – Salman Rushdie
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still. – Danish proverb
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad
Woke up this morning. CHECK – Tom Zegan
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. – Oscar Wilde
Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. – Henri-Frederic Amiel
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. – Alan Holbrook
Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it. – Hillary Rodham Clinton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. – May Sarton
Women are cursed, and men are the proof. – Rosanne Barr
Women are ever in extremes, they are either better or worse than men. – La Bruy?re
Women are ever masters when they like, And cozen with their kindness; they have spells Superior to the wand of the magicians; And from their lips the words of wisdom fall, Like softest music on the listening ear. – Firdausi
Women are like Records.... chasing them always leads to dissapointment. – Siddharth Astir
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together. – Anna Quindlen
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. – George Jean Nathan
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. – Elsa Schiaparelli
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. – Bella Abzug
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments. – Saville
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. – Barbara Hall
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home – John Wayne
women life is very hard, morning wash cloths, noon dry cloths, evening iron clothes, night remove cloths, late mid night search clothes.. – Yassine Aumerally
Women like silent men. They think they're listening. – Marcel Archard
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. – Oscar Wilde
Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.? – Hazlitt
Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind. – Kay Ingram
Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. – Unknown
Women should be obscene and not heard. – Groucho Marx
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. – George Bernard Shaw
Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible. – Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. – Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible. – Margaret Mead
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health. – Gloria Steinem
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself. – Mae West
Women?s wealth is beauty, learning, that of men. – Burmese Proverb
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. – Herbert W. Boyer
Wooderson That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age. – Dazed and Confused
Wooderson The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin man. L-I-V-I-N. – Dazed and Confused
Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Word is a shadow of a deed. – Democritus
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly. – Christian Williams
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. – Learned Hand
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. – Alexander Pope
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. – Manly P. Hall
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. – Field Marshall John French
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. – Shneur Zalman
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. – Aeschylus
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. – Thomas Hobbes
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. – Rudyard Kipling
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. – Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. – Sidney Madwed
Words divide us, actions unite us. – Slogan of the Tupamaros
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. – Jim Rohn
Words embody power to inspire or motivate us, but it is only we who have power to open up to see and feel it. – Anuj Somany
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. – Aldous Huxley
Words have a longer life than deeds. – Pindar
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. – Unknown
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign. – William Cowper
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. – Bertha Flowers
Words must be weighed, not counted. – Polish Proverb
Words of blame from those who are hostile to a great man cannot injure him. The moon is not hurt when barked at by a dog. – Arabic Proverb
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. – John Maynard Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. – John M. Keynes
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. – Dejan Stojanovic
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts. – Eddie Myers
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. – Mother Theresa
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality. – Joseph Conrad
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett
Work 'em hard, play 'em hard, feed 'em up to the nines and send 'em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are on the pillow. – Frank L. Boyden
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. – Mark Twain
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. – Andre Gide
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Work hard, live cheap, and save your money. – Edward C. Moroney, Jr.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. – Mark Twain
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. – Pablo Picasso
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Kahlil Gibran
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. – George Sand
Work is the curse of the drinking class. – Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. – Oscar Wilde
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. – Sir Theodore Martin
Work is victory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. – James Allen
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. – Buddha
Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need. – Voltaire
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. – Voltaire, Candide, 1759
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume the hellish cycle is complete. – Raoul Vaneigem
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. – Henri Frdric Amiel
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. – Karl Marx
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. – Marsha Evans
Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. – Ruth Stout
Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment. – Alfred Gingold
Working on something new is like a blind's walk. who knows where to reach but don't know how many hitches will meet. – G.S.Aulakh
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration. – Clay Aiken
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake. – E. M. Forster
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
World is brighter with the happiness of children. – Mehmet Murat ildan
World Peace starts with Inner Peace... – Pearl Davies
Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body. – Chinese
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides. – Dante
World’s most beautiful road is the road to peace! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Worries go better with soup than without. – Yiddish Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without. – Jewish Proverb
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. – Mary Hemingway
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt. – Charles H. Mayo
Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength. – Corrie ten Boom
Worry is a misuse of imagination. – Dan Zadra
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. – William Ralph Inge
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Dr.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere! – Worry
Worse things can come from where we cannot imagine, as well as the good stuff. – Foodi S. M.
Worship the potato The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship It's simple, it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. – Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. – Kahlil Gibran
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head. – Caligula
Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]. – Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. – John Lennon
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cakeThis is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. – John Heywood
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love. – Lewis Lew Wallace
Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. – Benjamin Franklin
Would you please shut up and sit down! – George Bush, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? – Sidney Madwed
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself. – Robert Southey
Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones. – Montagu Butler
Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning If there was simply no other cause of death One day you'd be sitting there having a hot chocolate, and suddenly your head would explode. – George
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second. – Helen Hunt Jackson
Wow. I just felt my heart drop.I think it might be fractured – Zimme26

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