W-Z Quotes

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.-Alice Walker, writer (1944- )

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (1717-1797)

Journalism is merely history's first draft. -Geoffrey C. Ward

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.-William Arthur Ward, American newspaper editor, writer

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life -- this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. -Charles Dudley Warner, author, editor, and publisher (1829-1900)

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. -Charles Dudley Warner, editor, and publisher (1829-1900)

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.-Charles Dudley Warner, editor and author (1829-1900)

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile. -Earl Warren, jurist (1891-1974)

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -Booker T. Washington

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.- Booker T. Washington

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (1856-1915)

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -George Washington (1732-1799)

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.-George Washington {1732-1799 First President of the US}

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington (1732-1799)

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. -George Washington, 1st US president (1732-1799)

Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on. -Arthur K. Watson

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. -- Lyall Watson

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simply, 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 of failure. -Thomas J. Watson

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. - Thomas J. Watson (18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM)

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? -Thomas J. Watson, industrialist (1874-1956)

Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best. -William Watson, poet (1858-1935)

The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us. -Bill Watterson

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to "stink of Zen." -Alan Watts

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -John Webster

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. -Walter Weckler

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. -Simone Weil

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. -H.G. Wells, writer (1866-1946)

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (1928- )

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (1928- )

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. -- Edith Wharton

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. -Richard Whately, philosopher, reformer, theologian, economist (1787-1863)

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. -James McNeill Whistler, painter (1834-1903)

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. -Paul Dudley White, physician (1886-1973)

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. -E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. -E.B. White

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

In the faces of men and women I see God. -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. -Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. -Walt Whitman, American poet (1819-1892)

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. -Dennis Wholey

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. -Robert S. Wieder, journalist

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. -Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951)

We flatter those we scarcely know,/ We please the fleeting guest, /And deal full many a thoughtless blow/ To those who love us best- Wilcox

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. -Ron Wild

Oscar Wilde

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth. -Elie Wiesel

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.- George Will

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. -Bern Williams

Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going. -Tennessee Williams

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand on hand, or mouth on mouth. -Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. -Tennessee Williams

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. -William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -Colin Wilson

Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes - the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They-Haves. -Earl Wilson, newspaper columnist (1907-1987)

I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose. -Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. -Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
~ Woodrow T. Wilson ~ (1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA)

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much. -Ken Wisdom

Experience has taught me that we have to take care of ourselves from the outside in as well as from the inside out. In other words, we need to take care of our internal health as well as our physical appearance, and our mental and spiritual well-being. You may think I'm stating the obvious, but I think the reason so many programs fail is that they focus on one body part at a time instead of treating the whole person.~ Julian Whitaker ~American Doctor

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist. -E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

The best writing is rewriting. -E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.-Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Harold Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. -Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -Tennessee Williams, dramatist (1911-1983)

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. -Earl Wilson, columnist(1907-1987)

No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson, critic (1895-1972)

I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession. -Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, Nobel laureate (1856-1924)

The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it. -Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the U.S., Nobel peace prize winner (1856-1924)

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -Henry Winkler, actor (1945-)

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cambridge philosopher

Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it. -Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921]

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence . Wittgenstein (Tractatus)

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. -John Witherspoon (1723-1794)

It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a meanadvantage ofthem. P G Wodehouse (1881-1975)

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. - Naomi Wolfe

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. -Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. -Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. -Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (1759-1797)

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. -John Wooden

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941)

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941)

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. -William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. -Peregrine Worsthorne

An idea is salvation by imagination. -Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. -Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)

Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak? -Steven Wright

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright, comedian (1955- )

Black holes are where God divided by zero. -Steven Wright, comedian (1955-)

Smoking cures weight problems... eventually. -Steven Wright, comedian (1955- )

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". -Henry M Wriston, 11th president of Brown University (1889-1978)

Y- Quotes

Poetry is made out of our quarrel with ourselves. -William Butler Yeats

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,...The best lack all conviction, while the worst \ Are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler Yeats [The Second Coming]

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. -William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity - W.B. Yeats

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. -Kenko Yoshida, essayist (1283-1352)

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -Edward Young, poet (1683-1765)

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. -Whitney M. Young

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
-Henny Youngman, comedian, actor (1906-1998)

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -Lin Yutang

Z-Quotes

Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. -Dan Zadra

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.--Zig Ziglar

If you keep on doing what you've been doing, you'll keep on getting what you've been getting. Zig Ziglar ( doubtful attribution)

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. -Phil Zimmermann, cryptographer (1954- )

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. -Emile Zola

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. -Gary Zukav, author (1942- )