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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
— Duke of Wellington
It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.
— Robert E. Lee
Men grow tired of sleep  love  singing and dancing sooner than of war.
— Homer
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself  your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort  at the least  and death at the other end  ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.
— Lillian Hellman
Vice stirs up war  virtue fights.
— Vauvenargues
In peace  sons bury their fathers  in war  fathers bury their sons.
— Herodotus
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
— John F. Kennedy
The weak against the strong  Is always in the wrong.
— Ivan Krylov
But  in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood  no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
War is like love  it always finds a way.
— Bertolt Brecht
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.
— Mao Tse-Tung
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
— Felix Frankfurter
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
— Anonymous
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
— William Thomas Cummings
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory  but boys  it is all hell.
— William T. Sherman
There will be no veterans of World War III.
— Walter Mondale
War is the science of destruction.
— John S. C. Abbott
The inevitableness  the idealism  and the blessing of war  as an indispensable and stimulating law of development  must be repeatedly emphasized.
— Anonymous
Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
— Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
— Otto von Bismarck
War never leaves  where it found a nation.
— Edmund Burke
Veni  vidi  vici. (I came  I saw  I conquered.)
— Julius Caesar
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes  but by blood and iron.
— Otto von Bismarck
What millions died - that Caesar might be great!
— Thomas Campbell
What distinguishes war is  not that man is slain  but that he is slain  spoiled  crushed by the cruelty  the injustice  the treachery  the murderous hand of man.
— William Ellery Channing
General Taylor never surrenders.
— Thomas L. Crittenden
We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.
— General Croghan
War  he sung  is toil and trouble  Honour but an empty bubble.
— John Dryden
By the rude bridge that arched the flood  Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd  Here once the embattl'd farmers stood  And fired the shot heard round the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hang yourself  brave Crillon. We fought at Arques  and you were not there.
— Henry IV
It is not right to exult over slain men.
— Homer
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— Thomas Jefferson
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
— Julia Ward Howe
We don't want to fight  but by jingo if we do  We've got the ships  we've got the men  we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true  The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
— G. W. Hunt
I have prayed in her fields of poppies  I have laughed with the men who died -  But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands  In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.
— Gordon Johnstone
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
— Frank Knox
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
— Bonar Law
0 God assist our side: at least  avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.
— Prince Leopold
To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe  March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!
— Rouget de Lisle
Ez for war  I call it murder  -  There you hev it plain and flat  I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
— James Russell Lowell
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity  it destroys religion  it destroys states  it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
— Martin Luther
Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch  be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep  though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.
— John McCrae
War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
— C. E. Montague
Wars and rumours of wars.
— Matthew
And this I hate - not men  nor flag nor race  But only War with its wild  grinning face.
— Joseph Dana Miler
When after many battles past  Both tir'd with blows  make peace at last  What is it  after all  the people get? Why! taxes  widows  wooden legs  and debt.
— Francis Moore
The brazen throat of war.
— John Milton
God how the dead men Grin by the wall  Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.
— Alfred Noyes
O war! thou son of Hell!
— William Shakespeare
A bad peace is even worse than war.
— Tacitus
The father of his country.
— Francis Bailey
I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
— Ben Jonson
I'll fares the land  to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates  and men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Poor men seek meat for their stomach  rich men stomach for their meat.
— Old saying
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
— Old saying
The smell of profit is clean and sweet  whatever the source.
— Juvenal
Riches enlarge  rather than satisfy appetites.
— Thomas Fuller
Australia is so kind that  just tickle her with a hoe  and she laughs with a harvest.
— Douglas Jerrold
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
— Samuel Johnson
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few  but we can't have both.
— Louis D. Brandeis
I am opposed to millionaires  but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
— Mark Twain
Sleep  riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
— Jean Paul Richter
The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things  but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States  but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan  but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.
— George Brockway
I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy  just independently lazy  I suppose.
— Montgomery Clift
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money  producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
— Paul Getty
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there  like air or food  or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
— John D. Rockefeller
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures  but in the use made of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I wish to become rich  so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little  like those kind-hearted  fat  benevolent people do.
— Mark Twain
In big houses in which things are done properly  there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
— Elizabeth Bowen
True abundance is not about gathering more things  it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance  so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided.
— Mary Manin Morrissey
It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars  to sail to an uncharted land  to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is good to have things that money can buy  but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
— George Horace Lorimer
Ordinary riches can be stolen  real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde
'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth  one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.
— Dale Carnegie
It is wealth to be content.
— Lao-Tzu
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you're happy  you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.
— Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Sometimes when you have everything  you can't really tell what matters.
— Christina Onassis
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
— John D. Rockefeller
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much  but one who gives much.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Having given all he had  He then is very rich indeed.
— Lao-Tzu
If you see yourself as prosperous  you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up  that is exactly what you will be.
— Robert Collier
Prosperity is just around the corner.
— Herbert Hoover
Wealth is not his that has it  but his who enjoys it.
— Benjamin Franklin
I have mental joys and mental health  Mental friends and mental wealth  I've a wife that I love and that loves me  I've all but riches bodily.
— William Blake
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie
If you would be wealthy  think of saving as well as of getting.
— Benjamin Franklin
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth  but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
— Henry George
I'll fares the land  to hastening ills a prey  Where wealth accumulates  and men decay  Princes and Lords may flourish  or may fade -  A breath can make them  as a breath has made -  But a bold peasantry  their country's pride  When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
— Horace
The wealth of nations is men  not silk and cotton and gold.
— Richard Hovey
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
— Samuel Johnson
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses  to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
— Martin Luther
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle  than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
— Matthew
All wealth is the product of labor
— John Locke
Get place and wealth  if possible  with grace  If not  by any means get wealth and place.
— Alexander Pope
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
— Proverbs
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
— Proverbs
He heapeth up riches  and knoweth not who shall gather them.
— Bible
No good man ever became suddenly rich.
— Syrus
Can snore upon the flint  when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
— William Shakespeare
One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed  for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
— E. V. Lucas
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleep faster  we need the pillows.
— Jewish proverb
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces  sleep.
— Aldous Huxley
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
— Francois Rabelais
Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Thou hast been called  O sleep! the friend of woe  But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
— Robert Southey
Yet a little sleep  a little slumber  a little folding of the hands to sleep.
— Bible
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance  arms us with terrible freedom  so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge  yet not the details  but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful  manly part  or a poor  drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions  they have a substantial truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For some must watch  while some must sleep  thus runs the world away.
— William Shakespeare
As a rule man is a fool  When it's hot he wants it cool  When it's cool he wants it hot  Always wanting what is not.
— Anonymous
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
— John Burroughs
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
— Bible
Oh  what a blamed uncertain thing This pesky weather is  It blew and snew and then it thew  And now  by jing  it's friz.
— Philander Johnson
When two Englishmen meet  their first talk is of the weather.
— Samuel Johnson
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
— Lord Byron
Come in the evening  come in the morning  Come when expected  come without warning  Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you  And the oftener you come  the more we'll adore you.
— Irish Rhyme
Welcome as the flowers in May.
— Walter Scott
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
— Bishop Berkeley
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger  Out where the smile dwells a little longer  That's where the West begins.
— Arthur Chapman
Go West  young man  and grow up with the country.
— Horace Greeley
Westward  Ho!
— George Peele
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
— Thomas Fuller
When a man's willing and eager  God joins in.
— Aeschylus
April is the crudest month  breeding Lilacs out of the dead land  mixing Memory and desire  stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
— T. S. Eliot
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
God bears with the wicked  but not forever.
— Cervantes
Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.
— George, Lord Halifax
I must be cruel Only to be kind.
— William Shakespeare
We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
— La Rochefoucauld
When we do evil  We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
— W. H. Auden
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.
— T. S. Eliot
We all have flaws  and mine is being wicked.
— James Thurber
Why inflict pain on oneself  when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?
— George W. Pacaud
God bears with the wicked  but not forever.
— Miguel de Cervantes
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
— Juvenal
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wickedness is weakness.
— John Milton
The wicked flee when no man pursueth  but the righteous are bold as a lion.
— Proverbs
The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca
'Cause I's wicked  - I is. I's mighty wicked  anyhow  I can't help it.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wives are young men's mistresses  companions for middle age  and old men's nurses.
— Sir Francis Bacon
She is a winsome wee thing  She is a handsome wee thing  She is a bonny wee thing  This sweet wee wife o' mine.
— James Drummond Burns
Think you  if Laura had been Petrarch's wife  He would have written sonnets all his life?
— Lord Byron
In every mess I find a friend  In every port a wife.
— Charles Dibdin
An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
— Benjamin Franklin
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
— Thomas Fuller
A miss for pleasure  and a wife for breed.
— John Gay
Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
— Samuel Johnson
All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
— Alexander Pope
She looketh well to the ways of her household  and eateth not the bread of idleness.
— Proverbs
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible  and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
— George Bernard Shaw
My dear  my better half.
— Philip Sidney
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it  but do not dare confess it to themselves.
— Anonymous
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
— Pearl Buck
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
— Thomas Fuller
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The spirit indeed is willing  but the flesh is weak.
— Bible
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will  and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey  and make the most of it.
— Ugo Betti
Fall seven times  stand up eight.
— Japanese proverb
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not  nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not  unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not  the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
— Calvin Coolidge
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness  but with energy and above all with illusions  I pulled through them all.
— Honore de Balzac
Man is both determined and self-determining.
— Stein and Vidichon
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
— Thomas Fuller
Those who live are those who fight.
— Victor Hugo
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you would convince others  seem open to conviction yourself.
— Lord Chesterfield
You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
— Frank Leahy
Victory - a matter of staying power.
— Elbert Hubbard
In war  as in life  it is often necessary  when some cherished scheme has failed  to take up the best alternative open  and if so  it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
— Winston Churchill
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
— Robert Service
Where there's a will there's a way.
— English proverb
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
— Epictetus
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
— Goethe
Not my will  but thine  be done.
— Bible
An ill wind that bloweth no man good -  The blower of which blast is she.
— John Heywood
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.
— Bible
Blow  wind  and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
— William Shakespeare
Sweet and low  sweet and low  Wind of the western sea  Low  low  breathe and blow  Wind of the western sea!
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Few things surpass old wine  and they may preach Who please  the more because they preach in vain  -  Let us have wine and women  mirth and laughter  Sermons and soda-water the day after.
— Lord Byron
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap  and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is  in truth  the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
— Thomas Jefferson
Claret is the liquor for boys  port for men  but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
— Samuel Johnson
There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
— Koran
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red  when it giveth his colour in the cup ... at the last it biteth like a serpent  and stingeth like an adder.
— Proverbs
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
— Bible
Drink no longer water  but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
— Anonymous
Oh  the long and dreary Winter! Oh  the cold and cruel Winter!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If Winter comes  can Spring be far behind?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
— Egyptian saying
A sage has one advantage  he is immortal. If this is not his century  many others will be.
— Baltasar Gracian
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man  to accomplish his end  may even carry his foe on his shoulder.
— Panchatantra
Ah  men do not know how much strength is in poise  That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
— James Russell Lowell
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
— Howard Ruff
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
— Hermann Hesse
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
— Euripides
Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.
— Anonymous
Night is the mother of counsels.
— George Herbert
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
— Tobias Smollett
The more specific you are  the more general it'll be.
— Diane Arbus
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
— Oscar Hammerstein
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
— James Russell Lowell
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
— William Blake
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22  which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
— Joseph Heller
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
— Phaedrus
The road to wisdom? Well  it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.
— Piet Hein
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
— Jewish proverb
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established.
— Bible
Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.
— Hugo Grotius
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
A word to the wise is infuriating.
— Anonymous
The wise only possess ideas  the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
— William Temple
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
— Philippe Quinault
A wise man sees as much as he ought  not as much as he can.
— Michel de Montaigne
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
— John Russell
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one  no less wise  to balance it.
— George Santayana
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there  lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well  but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
— Mark Twain
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
— Alexandre Dumas
It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.
— Rent Coty
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
— Adlai Stevenson
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Deliberate often - decide once.
— Latin proverb
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Knowledge comes  but wisdom lingers.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
— Bible
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
— Baltasar Gracian
My father used to say: Son  if you are not bright  you've got to be methodical  (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)
— Robert Sachs
Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom  his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds  his wisdom does not endure.
— The Talmud
The wisdom of our ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
It is easy to be wise after the event.
— English proverb
No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.
— Charles James Fox
Some are weather-wise  some are otherwise.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom is only found in trudi.
— Goethe
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
— J. G. Holland
Days should speak  and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
— Bible
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
— Homer
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
— Bible
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
— La Rochefoucauld
Be ye therefore wise as serpents  and harmless as doves.
— Matthew
Wisdom crieth without  she uttereth her voice in the street.
— Proverbs
Go to the ant  thou sluggard  consider her ways  and be wise.
— Proverbs
Wisdom is the principal thing  therefore get wisdom  and with all thy getting get understanding.
— Proverbs
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
— Bible
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If wishes were horses  beggars might ride.
— English proverb
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
— Benjamin Franklin
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
— Henry S. Leigh
Thy wish was father to that thought.
— William Shakespeare
As you cannot do what you wish  you should wish what you can do.
— Terence
If it's me against 48  I feel sorry for the 48.
— Margaret Thatcher
If the camel once gets his nose in a tent  his body will soon follow.
— Saudi Arabian proverb
If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.
— Salvadore Nasello
Irrevocable as a haircut.
— Lynwood L. Giacomini
Men never think their fortunes too great  nor their wit too little.
— Thomas Fuller
The wit makes fun of other persons  the satirist makes fun of the world  the humorist makes fun of himself.
— James Thurber
Too caustic? To hell with cost  we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.
— Samuel Goldwyn
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh  grind my teeth  paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
— Princess Anne
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.
— Madame de Stael
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
— Aristotle
If you want to be witty  work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
— Stendhal
The well of true wit is truth itself.
— George Meredith
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
— Lionel Strachey
What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
— La Rochefoucauld
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which  before their union  were not perceived to have any relation.
— Mark Twain
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought  but ne'er so well express'd.
— Alexander Pope
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit has truth in it  wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
— Dorothy Parker
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole  Its body brevity  and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Belief in form  but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
At their wits' end.
— Bible
Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.
— Horace Mann
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought  but ne'er so well expressed.
— Alexander Pope
Great men may jest with saints  'tis wit in them  But  in the less foul profanation.
— William Shakespeare
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
— Edgar Watson Howe
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman  the more careful she is about her face  is commonly the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche  more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
— Polly Toynbee
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35  she needs good looks. From 35 to 55  good personality. From 55 on  she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.
— Sophie Tucker
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
— Margaret Thatcher
In the sex-war  thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male  vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated  but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said  we have still to admit  with Byron  that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted  more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty  deceit and revenge is set alight  it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
— Cyril Connolly
No woman marries for money  they are all clever enough  before marrying a millionaire  to fall in love with him first.
— Cesare Pavese
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
— Rebecca West
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
— Margaret Thatcher
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
— Freya Stark
The great question which I have not been able to answer  despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul  is "what does a woman want"?
— Sigmund Freud
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire  which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity  but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
— Washington Irving
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't love a woman for what she says  but we like what she says because we love her.
— Andri Maurois
What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
— Ovid
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain  young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
— Charlotte Perkins
Women can do everything  men can do the rest.
— Russian proverb
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are  perhaps  the most discussed animal in the universe?
— Virginia Woolf
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Music and women I cannot but give way to  whatever my business is.
— Samuel Pepys
A woman never sees what we do for her  she only sees what we don't do.
— Georges Courteline
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
— Helen Lawrenson
A woman is always buying something.
— Ovid
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
— Kurt Vonnegut
By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged  overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman  for I do care.
— Nellie McClung
A kiss can be a comma  a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.
— Mistinguette
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.
— Zen proverb
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
— Golda Meir
Of my two 'handicaps'  being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
— Shirley Chisholm
The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.
— Patricia C. Beudoin
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us  and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
— Nellie McClung
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily  this is not difficult.
— Charlotte Whitton
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
— Lin Yutang
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
— Nicol Williamson
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
— Heinrich Heine
The more underdeveloped the country  the more overdeveloped the women.
— J. K. Galbraith
One is not born a woman - one becomes one.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can  wise if you want to  but be respected  that is essential.'
— Pierre Beaumarchais
A modest woman  dressed out in all her finery  is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Why should human females become sterile in their forties  while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
— Aldous Huxley
You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
— Ada Levenson
Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
— Evan Esar
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed  laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
— Lady Kasluck
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
— Colette
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
— Germaine Greer
Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.
— Sally Kempton
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
— Sally Kempton
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.
— Billie Burke
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
— Judith Anderson
I know the nature of women  When you want to  they don't want to  And when you don't want to  they desire exceedingly.
— Terence
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
— Sacha Guitry
My vigour  vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
— Nancy Lady Astor
I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem  and to be given away by a novel.
— John Keats
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
— Baltasar Gracian
Age cannot wither her  nor custom stale her infinite variety  other women cloy the appetites they feed  but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
— William Shakespeare
I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.
— Kin Hubbard
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough  and women are afraid they might be considered only women.
— Theodor Reik
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
— Peggy Joyce
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
— Laurence J. Peter
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
— English proverb
If a woman likes another woman  she's cordial. If she doesn't like her  she's very cordial.
— Irvin S. Cobb
Next to the wound  what women make best is the bandage.
— Barbey d'Aurevilly
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife  good mother  good looking  good tempered  well groomed and unaggressive.
— Leslie M. Mclntyre
When thou goest to woman  take thy whip.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It was a woman who drove me to drink - and  you know  I never even thanked her.
— W. C. Fields
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
— Margaret Mead
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
As a woman  to be competitive is to be passive.
— Marianne Partridge
Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at  but I wouldn't like to own one.
— W. C. Fields
Women are most adorable when they are afraid  that's why they frighten so easily.
— Ludwig Borne
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
— Golda Meir
What will not woman  gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
— Robert Southey
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only question left to be settled now is  are women persons?
— Susan B. Anthony
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men  but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
— Compton Mackenzie
When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion  the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
— John Weitz
Woman's place is in the wrong.
— James Thurber
There are no ugly women  only lazy ones.
— Helena Rubinstein
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
— Gloria Steinem
I dress for women - and I undress for men.
— Angle Dickinson
She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
— Anthony Delano
Whether they give or refuse  women are glad to have been asked.
— Ovid
One can find women who have never had a love affair  but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
— La Rochefoucauld
The mirror is the conscience of women  they never do a thing without first consulting it.
— Morltz G. Saphlr
Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men  because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women  at any rate in childbirth.
— Bertrand Russell
The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.
— Anonymous
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
— Nellie McClung
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
— H. L. Mencken
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think  feel  experience  with a man they are in love with is still very small.
— Doris Lessing
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life  or contemplative life  or saintly life.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Men know that women are an overmatch for them  and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so  they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men  one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance  very various  heroic and mean  splendid and sordid  infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme  as great as a man  some think even better.
— Virginia Woolf
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
— Frank O'Connor
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist  her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember  all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful  and it's best to take the gesture  the shadow of the branch  and let the mind create the tree.
— William Faulkner
The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of  and feeling toward  women and Negroes  we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.
— Gunnar Myrdal
When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."
— Anonymous
Oh  the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude  But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness  Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.
— Anonymous
Women always have some mental reservation.
— Louis Ferdinand Destouches
You see  dear  it is not true that woman was made from man's rib  she was really made from his funny bone.
— Sir James Matthew Barrie
In her first passion woman loves her lover  In all the others  all she loves is love.
— Lord Byron
A woman is like your shadow  follow her  she flies  fly from her  she follows.
— Sebastien Chamfort
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
— Abraham Cowley
Men say of women what pleases them! women do with men what pleases them.
— De Segur
Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)
— Alexander Dumas
There is no worse evil than a bad woman  and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
— Euripides
The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
— Goethe
Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.
— Remy de Gourmont
Women forgive injuries  but never forget slights.
— Thomas Haliburton
The crown of creation.
— Herdeb
Man has his will  - but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is God who makes woman beautiful  it is the devil who makes her pretty.
— Victor Hugo
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
— Rudyard Kipling
An' I learned about women from 'er.
— Rudyard Kipling
The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
— Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
— Rudyard Kipling
A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
— Rudyard Kipling
There are no ugly women  there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Earth's noblest thing  a Woman perfected.
— James Russell Lowell
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
— De Maistre
Too fair to worship  too divine to love.
— Henry Hart Milman
Grace was in all her steps  heaven in her eye  In every gesture dignity and love.
— John Milton
Offend her  and she knows not to forgive  Oblige her  and she'll hate you while you live.
— Alexander Pope
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
— Alexander Pope
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
— Bible
O wild  dark flower of woman  Deep rose of my desire  An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
— C. G. D. Roberts
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
— Rochebrune
Such  Polly  are your sex - part truth  part fiction  Some thought  much whim  and all contradiction.
— Richard Savage
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
— Friedrich von Schiller
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men ... and why  on the contrary  they are inferior to men as regards justice  and less honourable and conscientious.
— Schopenhauer
O Woman! in our hours of ease  Uncertain coy  and hard to please  And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made  When pain and anguish wring the brow  A ministering angel thou!
— Walter Scott
Fraily  thy name is woman!
— William Shakespeare
In the beginning  said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose  a lily  a dove  a serpent  a little honey  a Dead Sea apple  and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram -  it was a woman.
— William Sharp
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
— George Bernard Shaw
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit  though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
— George Bernard Shaw
A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.
— Syrus
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life  and avoid it as much as possible.
— Leo Tolstoy
There is no such thing as romance in our day  women have become too brilliant  nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
— Oscar Wilde
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight  A lovely Apparition  sent To be a moment's ornament.
— William Wordsworth
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say  "Yes  I've got dreams  of course  I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it  and yep  they're still there. These are great dreams  but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line  to hold them up and say  "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
— Erma Bombeck
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
— Anonymous
There is no such thing as a long piece of work  except one that you dare not start.
— Charles Baudelaire
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise  begin.
— Horace
All know the way  few actually walk it.
— Bodhidharma
Seize opportunity by the beard  for it is bald behind.
— Bulgarian proverb
Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear  the best way is to do them in their proper time.
— Ida Scott Taylor
If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.
— English proverb
Never mistake motion for action.
— Ernest Hemingway
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock  runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
— Emily Bronte
There is clearly much left to be done  and whatever else we are going to do  we had better get on with it.
— Rosalynn Carter
Procrastination is the thief of time.
— Edward Young
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
If a man would move the world  he must first move himself.
— Socrates
Who hesitate and falter life away  and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
— Matthew Arnold
Go ahead with your life  your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
— Richard L. Evans
A hard beginning makes a good ending.
— John Heywood
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
— Sir John Denham
Every artist was first an amateur.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A schoolboy's tale  the wonder of an hour!
— Lord Byron
Wonder is the basis of worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No wonder can last more than three days.
— Italian proverb
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
— Samuel Lover
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which  taken at the flood  leads - God knows where.
— Lord Byron
"Yes " I answered you last night  "No " this morning  sir  I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
— E. B. Browning
And let us mind  faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.
— James Drummond Burns
Tis enough -  Who listens once will listen twice  Her heart be sure is not of ice  And one refusal no rebuff.
— Lord Byron
Never wedding  ever wooing  Still a lovelorn heart pursuing  Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing  Wed or cease to woo.
— Thomas Campbell
If I am not worth the wooing  I surely am not worth the winning.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing  So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
— R. H. Barham
Why don't you speak for yourself  John?
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely  most politely  Flatter and impress the lady Most politely  most politely  Humbly beg and humbly sue  She may deign to look on you.
— W. S. Gilbert