Authors by Name: W
George Wald (2)
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
276 other sayings regarding war
Margaret Walker (3)
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
247 other sayings regarding aging
Henry A. Wallace (3)
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
247 sayings about aging
Alfred Russel Wallace (3)
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
320 sayings about death
Hugh Walpole (2)
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
340 thoughts relating to happiness
Izaak Walton (4)
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
198 other wisdom & wit regarding business
An Wang (3)
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
198 more thoughts about business
Mary Augusta Ward (3)
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
179 other wisdom & wit about marriage
William Arthur Ward (14)
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
56 more quotes about anger
Andy Warhol (18)
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
421 other quotes regarding art
Charles Dudley Warner (5)
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
29 more wisdom & wit about gardening
Earl Warren (6)
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
204 other quotes about education
George Washington (30)
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
232 more quotes about being alone
Martha Washington (2)
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
174 quotes about experience
Booker T. Washington (10)
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
232 quotes about being alone
Ethel Waters (4)
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
137 other thoughts about intelligence
Thomas J. Watson (6)
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
198 quotes about business
Isaac Watts (3)
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
170 wisdom & wit about change
Alan Watts (16)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
44 sayings relating to attitudes
Evelyn Waugh (3)
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
232 thoughts regarding being alone
John Wayne (4)
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
158 other sayings regarding courage
John Webster (3)
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
232 more quotes regarding being alone
Simone Weil (25)
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
421 wisdom & wit about art
Adam Weishaupt (2)
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
183 quotes about government
Lawrence Welk (9)
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
198 thoughts about business
Orson Welles (15)
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
247 wisdom & wit relating to aging
Rebecca West (11)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
421 quotes about art
Edith Wharton (6)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
247 views relating to aging
Richard Whately (5)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
420 more quotes regarding being good
Benjamin Whichcote (2)
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
240 other quotes regarding faith
Ellen G. White (3)
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
232 quotes about being alone
William Allen White (3)
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
132 more sayings relating to learning
Theodore White (5)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
41 other thoughts about communication
E. B. White (19)
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
247 thoughts about aging
George Whitefield (5)
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
15 other views about amazing
Alfred North Whitehead (19)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
421 more thoughts about art
Walt Whitman (30)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
421 quotes about art
John Greenleaf Whittier (7)
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
212 more quotes relating to beauty
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (6)
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.
421 more quotes about art
Oscar Wilde (100)
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
247 other wisdom & wit about aging
Laura Ingalls Wilder (2)
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
353 more views about best
Thornton Wilder (12)
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
232 more sayings about being alone
Tennessee Williams (17)
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
232 more quotes about being alone
William John Wills (2)
We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.
83 other wisdom & wit about morning
Edmund Wilson (2)
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
178 quotes about imagination
Tom Wilson (5)
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
247 quotes regarding aging
Flip Wilson (7)
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
232 more quotes about being alone
Harold Wilson (3)
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
170 more sayings relating to change
Samuel Wilson (3)
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
25 thoughts relating to environmental
Woodrow Wilson (19)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
170 other sayings regarding change
Walter Winchell (3)
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
421 more quotes relating to art
Ludwig Wittgenstein (9)
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
353 views relating to best
P. G. Wodehouse (3)
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
353 views regarding best
Mary Wollstonecraft (6)
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
247 more quotes about aging
Natalie Wood (4)
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
232 quotes about being alone
George Edward Woodberry (2)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
141 more quotes about failure
Victoria Woodhull (3)
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
170 views about change
Carter G. Woodson (6)
The mere imparting of information is not education.
204 wisdom & wit about education
Virginia Woolf (30)
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
247 thoughts about aging
William Wordsworth (21)
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
247 other quotes about aging
Frank Lloyd Wright (26)
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
247 other sayings about aging
Wilbur Wright (2)
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
257 more quotes relating to knowledge
Frances Wright (5)
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
43 quotes about equality
Orville Wright (2)
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
35 views regarding design
William Wycherley (3)
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
212 more quotes about beauty
Elinor Wylie (2)
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
270 more thoughts about fear
Tammy Wynette (2)
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
493 wisdom & wit regarding love