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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 21
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
Esther De Waal
It is invariable found that a content man is usually a weak one.
John Wagstaff
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
Anne Waldman
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace (1827-1905, American writer, soldier)
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [economic] policies will work.
Allen W. Wallis
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
Barbara Walters (1931-, American TV personality)
A manager is an assistant to his men.
Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956, American businessman, founder of IBM)
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
George F. Will (1941-, American political columnist)
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley (1640-1716, British dramatist)
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
William Wycherley (1640-1716, British dramatist)
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker (1838-1922, American merchant)
God's strength behind you, his concern for you, his love within you, and his arms beneath you are more than sufficient for the job ahead of you.
William A. Ward
It is fair to judge people and stained-glass windows only in their best light.
William A. Ward
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
Christine Warren
Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
Peter Wastholm
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
Faye Wattleton.
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
Dennis Weaver
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852, American lawyer, statesman)
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
Otto Weininger (1880-1903, German psychologist)
A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike.
Naomi Weisstein
I head a nation of a million presidents.
Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952, Israeli President)
An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people
Jack Welch
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Robert Welch
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans, openly inviting, breasts falling free and shameless and feeling no apparent obligation to smile, look pleasant or keep their voices low. And how they live! Just look at them to know how! If a man doesn't bring them to orgasm, they look for another who does. If by mistake they fall pregnant, they abort by vacuum aspiration. If they don't like the food, they push the plate away. If the job doesn't suit them, they hand in their notice. They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
Fay Weldon (1933-, British novelist)
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.
Orson Welles (1915-1985, American film maker)
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
Orson Welles (1915-1985, American film maker)
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Orson Welles (1915-1985, American film maker)
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles (1915-1985, American film maker)
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946, British-born American author)
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946, British-born American author)
I go for two kinds of men: the kind with muscles, and the kind without.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
He is every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca West (1892-1983, British author)
The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
Rebecca West (1892-1983, British author)
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
God gives opportunities; success depends upon the use made of them.
Ellen Gould White (1827-1915, American seventh-day Adventist leader)
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985, American author, editor)
There can be no transformation, no awakening, without the ‘here and now’ experience of life, which involves all of our being, not just our intellect.
Robert White (American trainer, professional speaker)
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
Katharine Whitehorn (1926-, British journalist)
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892, American poet, reformer, author)
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892, American poet, reformer, author)
It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
Anna Wickham
Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
Give us that grand word "woman:" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters.
Lady Jane Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain them. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Time is waste of money.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, American novelist, playwright)
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, American novelist, playwright)
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
In politics a week is a very long time.
Harold Wilson (1916-1995, British statesman, Prime Minister)
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson (1916-1995, British statesman, Prime Minister)
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson (1916-1995, British statesman, Prime Minister)
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.
Debra Winger (1955-, American actress)
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi Wolf (1962-, American author)
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Thomas Wolfe (1931-, American author, journalist)
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797, British feminist writer)
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodberry (1855-1930, American literary critic)
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
George E. Woodberry (1855-1930, American literary critic)
Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden (1910-, American basketball coach)
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden (1910-, American basketball coach)
Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
Julia Woodruff
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright (1955-, American humorist)
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)
To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)
Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it.
Tina Yothers
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Brigham Young (1801-1877, American Mormon leader)
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa (1940-, American rock musician)
It's your attitude, not just your aptitude, that determines your ultimate altitude.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
The way you see people is the way you treat them.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
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