WAGES : A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

WAGES : Employees are the ones making the magic happen — so long as their needs are being met. (Richard Branson: British business magnate and commercial astronaut, Born 1950)

WAGES : It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

WAGES (U.S.A.) : For many Americans, wages have stagnated, but immigrants are not to blame. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

WALKING : Walking is also an ambulation of mind. (Gretel Ehrlich: U.S. travel writer, poet, novelist, and essayist, Born 1946)

WALLS : Every wall has a gate. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WALLS : Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

WALLS : Walls don't work. . . . Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. (James Stavridis: U.S. retired U.S. naval admiral and chair of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, Born 1955)

WANDERERS : Not all those who wander are lost. (J. R. R. Tolkien: English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, 1892-1973)

WANDERERS : Those who wander are not necessarily lost. (Joseph Stein: U.S. playwright, best known for writing the books for such musicals as 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'Zorba,' 1912-2010)

WAR : A bad peace is even worse than war. (Tacitus: Roman senator and historian, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56—117 A.D.)

WAR : All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers . . . . Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. (Francois de Fenelon: French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet, and writer, 1651-1715)

WAR : An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

WAR : Any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one. (Linda Lafferty: teacher educator and author of novels and essays, 1925-2012)

WAR : As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

WAR : Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said "We're not free spenders" doesn't know our like. (John Ciardi: U.S. poet, translator, and etymologist, 1916-1986)

WAR : Civilization represents a repeating, intertwining cycle of chaos, violence, and order. Wars drive technological progress and tighten the bonds that hold us together. Little wonder it is so hard to kick the habit. (Peter Turchin: Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)

WAR : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

WAR : Either war is obsolete, or men are. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

WAR : Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891)

WAR : Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. (Guy de Mapaussant: French author, known as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893)

WAR : I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" (Eve Merriam: U.S. poet and writer, 1916-1992)

WAR : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

WAR : I have never advocated war, except as a means of peace. (Ulysses S. Grant: 18th president of the United States, who 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War, 1822-1885)

WAR : I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

WAR : I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

WAR : I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. (George McGovern: U.S. politician and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. 1922-2012)

WAR : If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

WAR : In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. (Herodotus: Greek historian who is known for having written the book "The Histories," and who is often referred to as "The Father of History,” 484—425 B.C.E.)

WAR : It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Douglas MacArthur: U.S. Five-star General who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, 1880-1964)

WAR : It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are puniished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

WAR : It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. (Robert E. Lee: U.S. Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, 1807-1870)

WAR : It simply is not true that war never settles anything. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965)

WAR : Law stands mute in the midst of arms. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

WAR : Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than of war. (Homer: Legendary author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey,' two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature, late eighth or early seventh century B.C.E.)

WAR : Money and trade are as much contraband of war as powder. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891)

WAR : Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

WAR : Morality is contraband in war. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

WAR : Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

WAR : Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

WAR : No guts, no glory! (Frederick C. Blesse: U.S. U.S. Air Force major general and flying ace. (1921-2012))

WAR : No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

WAR : No to war! War is not always inevitable—it is always a defeat for humanity. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. (Arthur Wellesley: British military and political figure, the Duke of Wellington, who served twice as Prime Minister and won a notable victory against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, 1769-1852)

WAR : Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. (J. R. Oppenheimer: U.S. theoretical physicist, one among those who are credited with being the 'Father of the atomic bomb,' 1904-1967)

WAR : Of all times, in time of war the press should be free. (William Borah: U.S. senator whose 33 years in the Senate led him to be known as the 'Lion of Idaho,’ 1865-1940)

WAR : Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover: U.S. engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States, 1874-1964)

WAR : One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

WAR : One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

WAR : People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

WAR : Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

WAR : Pessimism never won any battle. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

WAR : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons! (Unknown Source: )

WAR : Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

WAR : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

WAR : Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : The ballot is stronger than the bullet. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

WAR : The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. (Robert Lynd: Irish writer, editor of poetry, essayist, socialist and Irish nationalist, 1879-1949)

WAR : The first casualty when war comes is truth. (Hiram Johnson: U.S. governor and senator 1866-1945)

WAR : The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. (Norman Angell: British lecturer, author, member of Parliament, and Nobel laureate, 1872-1967)

WAR : The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

WAR : The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. (Vijaya L. Pandit: Indian freedom fighter, diplomat, and politician who served as the 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly, 1900-1990)

WAR : The most solemn things a president can do is ‘going to war’ or ‘ending a war.’ Sometimes it takes more courage to do the latter. (Michael Beschloss: )

WAR : The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

WAR : The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

WAR : The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951)

WAR : The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. (George Marshall: U.S. Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Nobel laureate, 1880-1959)

WAR : The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

WAR : The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Sun Tzu: Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who authored an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking, 544-496 B.C.E.)

WAR : The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

WAR : The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : The world must be made safe for democracy. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

WAR : There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : There are no atheists in the foxholes. (William T. Cummings: U.S. military Chaplain who served in the Philippines during WW II, 1903-1945)

WAR : There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

WAR : There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. (T. E. Lawrence: British archaeologist, army officer, military theorist, diplomat, and writer, 1888-1935)

WAR : There is many a boy today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891)

WAR : There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

WAR : There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. (Boner Law: British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1858-1923)

WAR : There never was a good war or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

WAR : There will be no veterans of World War III. (Walter Mondale: U.S. politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as the 42nd U.S. vice-president under President Jimmy Carter, Born 1928)

WAR : They will conquer, but they will not convince. (Miguel de Unamuno: Spanish novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and rector of the University of Salamanca, 1864-1936)

WAR : To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

WAR : To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

WAR : Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. (Anne O. McCormick: English-American journalist who worked as a foreign news correspondent and was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in a major journalism category, winning in 1937 for Correspondence, 1880-1954)

WAR : Trained to kill, Kill we will. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : War does not determine who is right—only who is left. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : War hath no fury like a non-combatant. (C. E. Montague: English journalist, novelist, and essayist, 1867-1928)

WAR : War is an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. . . . . War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it’s a lottery. (David Mitchell: Novelist, Born 1969)

WAR : War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

WAR : War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

WAR : War is merely the continuation of policy by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz: Prussian general and military theorist, 1780-1831)

WAR : War is not inevitable. It is possible; it may even be probable; but it need not be inevitable. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

WAR : War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

WAR : War is the enemy of the poor. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

WAR : War is the trade of kings. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

WAR : War is the unfolding of miscalculations. (Barbara Tuchman: U.S. historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, 1912-1989)

WAR : War nourishes war. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)

WAR : War should be to effect a humanitarian result—not just to kill people and collect real estate. (Unknown Source: )

WAR : War would end if the dead could return. (Stanley Baldwin: British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947)

WAR : War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. (Karl Kraus: Austrian writer, journalist, and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1874-1936)

WAR : War, at its heart, is a paradox. We are all appalled by it but also entranced by it. War is devastating, but it also brings about huge social and medical inventions. War appeals to the worst of human strengths, but it inspires ideals and qualities that are rarely seen in peacetime. And, above all, war is what happens when the things that we want to live for are worth dying for. (Christiane Amanpour: British-Iranian journalist and television hostess, Born 1958)

WAR : War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill. (Bill Moyers: U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)

WAR : Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. (Paul Fussell Jr.: U.S. cultural and literary historian, author, and professor, 1924-2012)

WAR : Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

WAR : Wars, even so-called wars of liberation , bring more evil, death, and destruction than good. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

WAR : We always use evil to prevent greater evil. How much evil must be done to achieve good? (Unknown Source: )

WAR : We make war that we may live in peace. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

WAR : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Unknown Source: )

WAR : When men go to war, women go to work. (Daisy Blodgett: U.S. suffragette, 1863-1947)

WAR : When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

WARMHEARTEDNESS : Sometimes you find people who have sun inside them. They have an internal being that shines so bright it feels like sun warming your soul. (Unknown Source: )

WARMTH : If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

WARNING : A canary in the coal mine (Unknown Source: )

WARNING : A stumble may prevent a fall. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

WARNING : One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

WASTED TIME : The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

WATER : All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. (Unknown Source: )

WEAKNESS : All cruelty springs from weakness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

WEAKNESS : It takes a lot of courage to be weak. (Unknown Source: )

WEAKNESS : People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

WEAKNESS : Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

WEAKNESS : The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. (Mark Rutherford: British composer and producer, 1831-1913)

WEAKNESS : You never want to try to strengthen a weakness if it weakens your strength. (Bob Torrance: Scottish soccer player, 1888-1917)

WEAKNESSES : Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence are wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; and politics without principle. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

WEALTH : Abundance, like want, ruins many. (Russian Proverb: )

WEALTH : Contentment is the greatest wealth. (Mata Amritanandamayi: Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging saint' by her followers, Born 1953)

WEALTH : Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

WEALTH : I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers. (Paul Getty: U.S.-born British petrol-industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company and who in 1957 was named by 'Forbes' magazine as the world’s richest private citizen, 1892-1976)

WEALTH : Ill fares the land, to hastening ills of prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. (Oliver Goldsmith: Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)

WEALTH : In revolutionary times, the rich are always the people who are most afraid. (Gerald W. Johnson: U.S. historian, journalist, novelist, editor, 1880-1980)

WEALTH : It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Bible, Matthew 19:23-24: )

WEALTH : It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

WEALTH : It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

WEALTH : It is wealth to be content. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

WEALTH : Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

WEALTH : Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)

WEALTH : Riches either serve or govern the possessor. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

WEALTH : Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

WEALTH : Some people are so poor; all they have is money. (Patrick Meagher: Irish athlete who played in Gaelic games similar to soccer, 1890-1958))

WEALTH : Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters. (Christine Onassis: U.S.-born Greek businesswoman, socialite, and heiress to the Onassis fortune, 1950-1988)

WEALTH : Surplus wealth is a sacred trust that its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919)

WEALTH : The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

WEALTH : The first wealth is health. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WEALTH : The greatest wealth is to live content with little. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

WEALTH : The man who dies rich dies disgraced. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919)

WEALTH : The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013)

WEALTH : The only foolproof path to weather is inheritance. (Unknown Source: )

WEALTH : The only question with wealth is what you do with it. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

WEALTH : The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

WEALTH : The rich know not who is his friend. (Unknown Source: )

WEALTH : The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much. (St. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, an important Early Church Father, known for his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, 349-407 A.D.)

WEALTH : To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

WEALTH : We can have democracy . . . or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

WEALTH : We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

WEALTH : Wealth is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

WEALTH : Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. (Unknown Source: )

WEALTH : Wealth doesn’t “trickle down.” It gushes up. (Robert Reich: U.S. professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator, Born 1946)

WEALTH : When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, the last river is polluted, and when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. (Alanis Obomsawin: Canadian filmmaker, Born 1932)

WEALTH : Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WEALTH : You're better off being rich and guilty in the U.S. than poor and innocent. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)

WEAPONRY : Astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon (in 1969). (Arthur Goldberg: U.S. statesman, jurist of the U.S. Court, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1908-1990)

WEAPONRY : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

WEAPONRY : I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

WEAPONRY : Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. (J. R. Oppenheimer: U.S. theoretical physicist, one among those who are credited with being the 'Father of the atomic bomb,' 1904-1967)

WEAPONS : Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Martin Amis: British novelist, Born 1949)

WEAPONS : I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging. (Betty Williams: Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate , Born 1943)

WEAPONS : Landmines are weapons of mass destruction in slow motion. (Jerry White: U.S. Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia and co-founder of Landmine Survivor Network, Born 1963)

WEAPONS : The tools of conquest do not necessarily come from bombs . . . . There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found in the minds of men. (Rod Serling: U.S. screenwriter and television producer who helped form television industry standards, 1924-1975)

WEAPONS : War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons. (Unknown Source: )

WEARINESS : Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

WEATHER : Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

WEATHER : Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

WEATHER : March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. (Unknown Source: )

WEATHER : Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. (Edmund Waller: English poet and politician, 1606-1687)

WEB-BROWSING : You affect the world by what you browse. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955)

WEEDS : What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WEEPING : Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. (Ella W. Wilcox: U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

WEIGHT : Bread is like the sun; it rises in the yeast and sets in the waist. (Unknown Source: )

WELL-BEING : I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848)

WELL-BEING : Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)

WELL-BEING : To live long, live slowly. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

WHISTLEBLOWERS : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

WHISTLEBLOWERS : What is to give light must endure burning. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)

WICKEDNESS : Wickedness never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. (Unknown Source: )

WIDOWERS : Widowers are often looking for "a nurse with a purse." (Unknown Source: )

WIDOWS : A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. (Unknown Source: )

WIDOWS : What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow. (Unknown Source: )

WILDERNESS : The air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. (John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness, 1838-1914)

WILL : There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

WILLFULNESS : Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Laura Schlessinger: U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947)

WILLFULNESS : If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. (Yiddish Proverb: )

WILLFULNESS : It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

WILLFULNESS : The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

WILLFULNESS : Where there's a will, there's a way. (English proverb: )

WILLFULNESS : Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. (Gerald G. May: U.S. psychiatrist and theologian, 1940-2005)

WILLINGNESS : Experience teaches only the teachable. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

WILLINGNESS : Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. (Nicoolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

WILLINGNESS : Your world is as big as you make it. (Georgia D. Johnson: U.S. poet and journalist who was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, 1880-1966)

WINE : Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of all beverages. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

WINNERS : Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do. (Unknown Source: )

WINNERS : Winners never quit and quitters never win. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

Winning : A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

Winning : If you can't accept losing, you can't win (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

Winning : Sometimes you win: sometimes you learn. (Unknown Source: )

Winning : Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

Winning : Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

Winning : Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. (Red Sanders: )

WISDOM : A quiet fool is half a sage. (Yiddish Proverb: )

WISDOM : A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

WISDOM : A wise man hears one word and understands two. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. (: )

WISDOM : A wise man, to accomplish his end, may even carry his foe on his shoulder. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope! (Alexandre Dumas: French novelist and playwright who is one of the most widely read French authors, 1802-18870)

WISDOM : Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

WISDOM : Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (William Saroyan: Award-winning Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer, 1908-1981)

WISDOM : Great men are not always wise. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : Growing older is mandatory. Growing wiser is optional. (Doug Armey: U.S. author, entrepreneur, and adventurer)

WISDOM : He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

WISDOM : I begin to suspect that a man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

WISDOM : I have wintered into wisdom. (Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem-BEOWULF: )

WISDOM : I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

WISDOM : It is easy to be wise after the event. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Walter Lippmann: U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer who coined the word 'Stereotype,' and received two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974))

WISDOM : Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Theodore Rubin: U.S. psychiatrist, author, and a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1923-2019)

WISDOM : Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. (Herman Hesse: German-born poet, painter, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature, whose works include "Steppenwolf," and "Siddhartha," 1877-1962)

WISDOM : Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

WISDOM : Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future. (W. Timothy Garvey: U.S. endocrinologist and professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama)

WISDOM : Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

WISDOM : Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Tobias Smollett: Scottish poet and author. 1721-1771)

WISDOM : Still waters run deep. (Latin Proverb: )

WISDOM : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

WISDOM : The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

WISDOM : The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

WISDOM : The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. (Antoine Bret: 18th-century French prolific writer and playwright who practiced almost all genres — light poetry, comedies, novels, and memoirs, 1717-1792)

WISDOM : The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

WISDOM : The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WISDOM : The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : The sage wears rough clothing and holds the jewel in his heart. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

WISDOM : The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. (Ezra Pound: U.S. expatriate poet, 1885-1972)

WISDOM : The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834)

WISDOM : The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. (Nicolas Boileau: French poet and critic, 1636-1711)

WISDOM : The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. (Richard R. Grant: U.S. Professor of Finance and Economics, 1939-2014)

WISDOM : They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

WISDOM : To be wise is to be eternally curious. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926)

WISDOM : Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : True wisdom comes . . . when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

WISDOM : We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

WISDOM : Wisdom comes alone through suffering. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

WISDOM : Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. (Julio Olalla: Chilean consultant and former government attorney, Born 1945)

WISDOM : Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

WISDOM : Wisdom is having a lot to say and not always saying it. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : Wisdom is not a product of schooling but pf the lifelong attempt to acquire it. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

WISDOM : Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. (Unknown Source: )

WISDOM : You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions, (Naguib Mahfouz: Egyptian writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature who is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, 1911-2006)

WISECRACKING : Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

WISHES : As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

WISHES : Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. (Washington Irving: U.S. short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, 1783-1859)

WISHES : If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

WISHES : Widowers are often looking for "a nurse with a purse." (Unknown Source: )

WIT : A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

WIT : Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

WIT : Belief in form, but disbelief in content—that's what makes an aphorism charming. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

WIT : Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

WIT : Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

WIT : Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. (Aristotle Onassis: Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)

WIT : The well of true wit is truth itself. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)

WIT : True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd / What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

WIT : Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817)

WIT : Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

WIT : Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. (Unknown Source: )

WIT : Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

WIT : Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

WIT : Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

WITHDRAWAL : The pain of holding on is always greater than the pain of letting go. (Unknown Source: )

WITNESS : One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. (Titus M. Plautus: Roman playwright, 254 B.C.-184 .C.)

WIVES : A miss for pleasure, and a wife for breed. (John Gay: English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)

WIVES : A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

WIVES : An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

WIVES : I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff. (Lewis Grizzard: U.S. writer and humorist, 1946-1994)

WIVES : Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

WOMANHOOD : Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us. (Christabel Parkhurst: British suffragette who supported the war against Germany, 1880-1958)

WOMEN : . . . when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

WOMEN : A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

WOMEN : A woman must not depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

WOMEN : A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Irina Dunn: Australian writer, social activist, and filmmaker, who served in the Australian Senate representing the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Born 1948)

WOMEN : A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. (Melinda Gates: U.S. philanthropist who with her husband, Bill Gates, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — that at the time in 2015 was the world's largest private charitable organization, Born 1964)

WOMEN : A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

WOMEN : A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WOMEN : After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels (Ann Richards: U.S. politician and governor of the state of Texas, 1933-2006)

WOMEN : All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. (Sarah M. Grimke: U.S. Quaker abolitionist who was born and reared in South Carolina and widely regarded as the 'Mother of the women's suffrage movement,' (1792-1873))

WOMEN : All issues are women’s issues. (Aileen Hernandez: African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist who served as the president of the National Organization for Women, Born, 1926)

WOMEN : An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls— even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls—without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

WOMEN : As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

WOMEN : Black women have been doubly victimized by the immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. (Pauli Murray: U.S. civil rights activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, and Episcopal priest, 1910-1985)

WOMEN : Don’t forget the ladies! (Abigail Adams: U.S. wife and advisor of U.S. President, John Adams, known to have coached him on women’s issues while he was working on the ‘Declaration of Independence’, 1744-1818)

WOMEN : Every woman is a nurse. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)

WOMEN : Every woman should marry—and no man. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

WOMEN : For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. (Elizabeth Blackwell: British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and as a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine, 1821-1910)

WOMEN : Honor women! They entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)

WOMEN : Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. (Evan Esar: U.S. humorist who wrote 'Esar's Comic Dictionary,' 1899-1995)

WOMEN : I dress for women—and I undress for men. (Angie Dickinson: U.S. television and screen actress, Born 1931)

WOMEN : I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

WOMEN : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or prostitute. (Rebecca West: British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer, 1892-1983)

WOMEN : I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country. (Abigail Adams: U.S. wife and advisor of U.S. President, John Adams, known to have coached him on women’s issues while he was working on the ‘Declaration of Independence’, 1744-1818)

WOMEN : I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

WOMEN : If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Sarah Boseley: U.S. writer, editor of 'The Guardian,' and recipient of several awards for her worldwide health-related projects)

WOMEN : If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women. (Abigail Adams: U.S. wife and advisor of U.S. President, John Adams, known to have coached him on women’s issues while he was working on the ‘Declaration of Independence’, 1744-1818)

WOMEN : In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women. (Theodore Reik: Austrian-U.S. psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States, 1888-1969)

WOMEN : It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. (Francois Rochebrune: French soldier, 1830-1870)

WOMEN : It was a woman who drove me to drink — and, you know, I never thanked her for it. (W.C. Fields: U.S. comedian, actor, juggler, and writer, 1880-1946)

WOMEN : It’s not about being a strong woman — it’s about being a strong person. (Billie Lourd: US. actress who appeared in the 'Star Wars sequel trilogy', Born 1992)

WOMEN : Men are not against women; they are merely for themselves. (Gene Fowler: U.S. journalist and author, 1890-1960)

WOMEN : Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

WOMEN : Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. (Germaine Greer: Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century, Born 1939)

WOMEN : Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. (Jules B. d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer, 1808-1889)

WOMEN : No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. (Margaret Sanger: U.S. birth-control activist, sex-educator, writer, and nurse who opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1879-1966)

WOMEN : 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. McIntyre: British writer, 1937-2005)

WOMEN : Not all girls are made from sugar and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, dark chocolate, intelligence, cuss words, and courage. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : One is not born a woman: one becomes one. (: )

WOMEN : One woman can make a difference, but together we can rock the world. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. (Elizabeth C. Stanton: U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902)

WOMEN : Some leaders are born women. (Geraldine Ferraro: U.S. politician, diplomat, and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives and was the the Democratic Party's nominee for vice-president, 1935-2011)

WOMEN : Strong women aren’t simply born; they are made by the storms they walk through. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : 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: Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer who was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert, 1893-1993)

WOMEN : The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons? (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

WOMEN : The right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. (Harry Blackmun: U.S. lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1908-1999)

WOMEN : The status of women in a country is a good indicator of the health of its economy. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from. (Patricia C. Beudoin: U.S. writer)

WOMEN : The true republic: Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. (Franklin P. Adams: U.S. writer, famed for his wit and best known for his columns and as a radio panelist, 1881-1960)

WOMEN : The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

WOMEN : 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: U.S. activist who served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, Born 1927)

WOMEN : There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

WOMEN : There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other. (Madeleine Albright: U.S. diplomat, politician, and the first female United States Secretary of State in U.S. history, Born 1937)

WOMEN : To the wrongs that need resistance/ To the right that needs assistance/ To the future in the distance/ Give yourselves. (Carrie C. Catt: U.S. women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women in 1920 the right to vote, 1859-1947)

WOMEN : Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work. (Bernice J. Reagon: U.S. singer, composer, scholar, and social activist who realized the power of collective singing to unify disparate groups, Born 1942)

WOMEN : We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it? (Ivy B. Priest: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)

WOMEN : Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. (Charlotte Whitton: Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa, the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, who was also a journalist and writer, 1896-1975)

WOMEN : When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. (Letty C. Pogrebin: U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of 'Ms.,' a liberal feminist magazine, Born 1939)

WOMEN : When men go to war, women go to work. (Daisy Blodgett: U.S. suffragette, 1863-1947)

WOMEN : When you say ignorant things about women in power, they don’t hear you. But your daughters do. Your mother does. Your sisters and nieces hear you too. (Unknown Source: )

WOMEN : Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked. (Ovid: Roman poet and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)

WOMEN : Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved? (Stephanie Dray: Stephanie Dray, U.S. bestselling author of historical women’s fiction and fantasy, Born 1971))

WOMEN : Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator; she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

WOMEN : Woman is at once apple and serpent. (Heinrich Heine: German poet, writer and literary critic whose radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities, 1797-1856)

WOMEN : Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)

WOMEN : Women are made to be loved, not understood. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WOMEN : Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. (Jules Michelet: French historian who was the first to use and define the word 'Renaissance' as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a dramatic break from the Middle Ages, 1798-1874)

WOMEN : Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. (Doris Lessing: British-Zimbabwean novelist, 1919-2013)

WOMEN : Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. (Thomas C. Haliburton: Nova Scotian politician, member of the British Parliament, judge, author, and the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada, 1796-1865)

WOMEN : Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women. (Nellie McClung: Canadian author, social activist, suffragette, and politician whose efforts were largely responsible for Manitoba becoming, in 1916, the first province to give women the right to vote and to run for public office, 1873-1951)

WOMEN : Women, can't live with them and can't live without them. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))

WOMEN : You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. (Brigham Young: U.S. religious leader of the Mormon Church and politician, who founded of Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, 1801-1877)

WONDER : Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WONDERING : Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Answers are dangerous, for they kill your wonder. (Unknown Source: )

WOOING : The time I've lost in wooing / In watching and pursuing / The light that lies In woman's eyes / Has been my heart's undoing. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. (Jessamyn West: U.S. author of short stories and novels, who was of Quaker background and a Founder of the Palmer Society, 1902-1984)

WORDS : A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. (Ludwig Wittgenstein: Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)

WORDS : A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

WORDS : A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

WORDS : A word to the wise is sufficient. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

WORDS : Actions speak louder than words. (St. Anthony of Padua: Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, 1195-1231)

WORDS : All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

WORDS : All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

WORDS : By words the mind is winged. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WORDS : Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras: Ancient Greek philosopher whose teachings influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy, c. 570–c. 495 B.C.E.)

WORDS : Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. (Brian Dyson: U.S. businessman and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, Born 1935)

WORDS : For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. (Ingrid Bengis: U.S. teacher, business woman, and writer about love, hate, and sexuality, 1944-2017)

WORDS : His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : I sometimes hold it half a sin / To put in words the grief I feel / For words, like nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

WORDS : It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colors, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

WORDS : Language actually interferes with communication . . . it gets in the way like an over-dominant sense . . . . Words aren't always the most reliable thing. (Lily King: U.S. novelist, Born 1963)

WORDS : Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

WORDS : My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

WORDS : Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

WORDS : Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show—full of potential, but temporarily inactive. (Anthony Burgess: English author, 1917-1993)

WORDS : Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

WORDS : Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never harm me. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. (Ludwig Wittgenstein: Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)

WORDS : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Dennis Potter: English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)

WORDS : There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

WORDS : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009)

WORDS : There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words. (Earnest Calkins: U.S. advertising executive who was deaf and pioneered the use of art in advertising, 1868-1964)

WORDS : Thought flies and words go on foot. (Julien Green: French-American writer of somber psychological novels and an elected member of the Académie Française, 1900-1998)

WORDS : Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it. (Sven Lidman: Swedish military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, 1882-1960)

WORDS : We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)

WORDS : When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

WORDS : Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

WORDS : Words are but the signs of ideas. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

WORDS : Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings. (Malagasy Proverb: )

WORDS : Words are like money; it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

WORDS : Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

WORDS : Words are loaded pistols. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

WORDS : Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

WORDS : Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

WORDS : Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard: French writer, 1864-1910)

WORDS : Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

WORDS : Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : Words gain credibility by deed. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

WORDS : Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. (John M. Keynes: English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics, 1883-1946)

WORDS : Words should be weighed and not counted. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

WORDS : Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Unknown Source: )

WORDS : Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

WORDS : Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

WORK : A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life. (Barbara Walters: U.S. broadcast journalist, author, and television personality, Born 1929)

WORK : A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

WORK : Anyone can do any amount of work—provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley: U.S. humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, 1889-1945)

WORK : By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

WORK : Congenial labor is essence of happiness. (Arthur C. Benson: English essayist, poet, author, academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1862—1925)

WORK : Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. (Charles Baudelaire: French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe, 1827-1861)

WORK : How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour / And gather honey all the day from every opening flower. (Isaac Watts: English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician, 1674-1748)

WORK : If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848)

WORK : If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

WORK : If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

WORK : It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Jerome K. Jerome: English writer and humorist, 1859-1927)

WORK : It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

WORK : Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

WORK : Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (James M. Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1860-1937)

WORK : People who work sitting down generally get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

WORK : Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. (Laura M. Towne: Ul.S. abolitionist and educator who is best known for forming the first freedmen's schools, 1825-1901)

WORK : Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (David Bly: U.S. teacher and politician, Born 1952)

WORK : Success comes before work only in the dictionary. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

WORK : The Gods rank work above virtues. (Hesiod: Greek poet, along with Homer, whose writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, ca. 750—650 B.C.E.)

WORK : The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea known to medical science—is work. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

WORK : The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight / But they, while their companions slept / Were toiling upward in the night. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

WORK : The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Unknown Source: )

WORK : The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

WORK : When I think of the sorrows and regrets of my life, not one of them is associated with the times I’ve stopped working and took time off to play. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)

WORK : Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

WORK : Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. [Known as Parkinson’s Law] (Cyril N. Parkinson: British naval historian and author of some 60 books, 1909-1963)

WORK : Work is much more fun than fun. (Noel Coward: English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, 1899-1973)

WORK : Work is the best method devised for killing time. (William Feather: U.S. publisher, printer, and author, 1889-1981)

WORK : Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

WORK : Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

WORKAHOLICS : Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics. (Mary Daly: U.S. radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian, who taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years, 1928-2010)

WORKAHOLICS : Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. (Laurence Susser: U.S. medical doctor-anesthesiologist)

WORKAHOLISM : The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch." (Unknown Source: )

WORLD : If all the world must see the world / As the world the world hath seen / Then it were better for the world / That the world had never been. (Charles C. Leland: U.S. humorist and folklorist who wrote books on U.S. and European languages and folk traditions, 1824-1903)

WORLD : In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

WORLD : The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Unknown Source: )

WORLD : The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. (Ivy B. Priest: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)

WORLD CITIZEN : Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

WORLD CITIZEN : We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." (Lawrence Lessig: U.S. professor and political activist, Born 1961)

World War II : World War II was the last government program that really worked. (George Will: U.S. conservative political commentator and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Born 1941)

WORLD-MINDEDNESS : Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

WORRIES : Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

WORRIES : Worries go down better with soup than without. (Jewish proverb: )

WORRY : A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. (John Lubbock: English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymath who coined the terms 'Paleolithic' and 'Neolithic' to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively, 1834-1913)

WORRY : A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

WORRY : A pound of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. (English proverb: )

WORRY : A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral. (Helen Nielsen: U.S. author of mysteries and television scripts for dramas, 1918-2002)

WORRY : As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. (Federico G. Lorca: Spanish poet, playwright, and painter, 1898-1936)

WORRY : Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret. (Leo Rangell: U.S. psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, 1913-2011)

WORRY : Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. (Karen Horney: German psychoanalyst, 1885-1952)

WORRY : Does what we try most to avoid come after us because we paid too much attention to it with our worry? (Tommy Orange: U.S. writer and novelist (and citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) who was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, Born 1982)

WORRY : If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. (Unknown Source: )

WORRY : It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942)

WORRY : Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours. (Bill Vaughan: U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

WORRY : Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

WORRY : The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

WORRY : There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow.’ (Robert J. Burdette: U.S. humorist and clergyman, 1844-1914)

WORRY : There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

WORRY : When worried, turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, (B. C. Forbes: Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954)

WORRY : Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness. (Unknown Source: )

WORRY : Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish Proverb: )

WORRY : Worry is a state of mind based on fear. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

WORRY : Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. (Arthur S. Roche: U.S. author of novels, short stories, and two plays, 1883-1935)

WORRY : Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. (Unknown Source: )

WORRY : Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983)

WORRY : Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. (Archibald J. Cronin: Scottish physician and novelist whose books helped to inspire the National Health Service, 1896-1981)

WORRY : Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good. (Unknown Source: )

WORRY : Worrying works. 90% of what I worry about never happens. (Unknown Source: )

WORRYING : Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. (Erma Bombeck: U.S. book writer and journalist with a newspaper humor column, 1927-1996)

WORRYING : Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. (Unknown Source: )

WORRYING : Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen. (Unknown Source: )

WORRYING : Worrying works. 90% of what I worry about never happens. (Unknown Source: )

WORSHIP : If not religious, man will be superstitious. If he worships not the true God, he will have his idols. (Theodore Parker: U.S. minister of the Unitarian church, reformer, and abolitionist, whose words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., (1810-1860))

WORTHINESS : A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

WORTHINESS : I believe in one thing — that only a life lived for others is a life worth living. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

WORTHINESS : Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (W. B. Cameron: U.S. author, columnist, and humorist, Born 1960)

WORTHINESS : The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. (Cullen Hightower: U.S. quotation and quip writer, 1923-2008)

WORTHINESS : The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

WORTHINESS : Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

WOUNDING : The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. (Romanian Proverb: )

WOUNDS : A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. (Jessamyn West: U.S. author of short stories and novels, who was of Quaker background and a Founder of the Palmer Society, 1902-1984)

WOUNDS : It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. (Rose Kennedy: U.S. philanthropist, socialite, centenarian, and the mother of nine children, including President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, 1890-1995)

WOUNDS : There are deeper wounds than those of the body; heal the deeper!. (Unknown Source: )

WOUNDS : There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed. (Harry Crews: U.S. novelist and playwright, 1935-2012)

WRINKLES : I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit. (Helena Rubenstein: Polish American businesswoman, art collector, philanthropist, and founder of famous cosmetics company,1872-1965)

WRINKLES : Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

WRINKLES : Wrinkles are the service stripes of life. (Unknown Source: )

WRINKLES : Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

WRINKLES : Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Watterson Lowe: U.S. entrepreneur and interior decorator, 1886-1980)

WRITERS : No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

WRITERS : The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised, or even loved. And that perhaps is what make him different from others. (Leo C. Rosten: U.S. writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography, 1908-1997 Born: April 11, 1908, Łódź, Poland Died: February 19, 1997 (age 88 years), New York, NY)

WRITERS : They will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys. (Terri Guillemets: U.S. writer and quotation anthologist, Born 1973)

WRITERS : Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)

WRITERS : Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877)

WRITING : A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

WRITING : A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991)

WRITING : A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

WRITING : A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

WRITING : A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

WRITING : A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. (Jean-Luc Godard: French-Swiss film director and screenwriter, Born 1930)

WRITING : A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

WRITING : A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. (Pamela L. Travers: Australian-British writer who is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, 1899-1996)

WRITING : A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

WRITING : All except the shallowest living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. (Unknown Source: )

WRITING : Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

WRITING : Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

WRITING : Easy reading is damn hard writing. (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

WRITING : Fiction is the truth inside the lie. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

WRITING : Footnotes—the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

WRITING : For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. (Sylvia Plath: U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer, 1932-1963)

WRITING : Get black on white. (Guy de Maupassant: French writer, remembered as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893)

WRITING : Hard writing is easy reading; easy writing is hard reading. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)

WRITING : How can I know what I think till I see what I say? (E. M. Forster: English novelist, short story writer, essayist, librettist, and sixteen-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1879-1970)

WRITING : How can you write if you can't cry? (Ring Lardner: U.S. sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre — and whose contemporaries professed strong admiration for his writing, 1885-1933)

WRITING : How do I know what I think until I see what I write? (Unknown Source: )

WRITING : I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

WRITING : I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

WRITING : I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. (Francoise Sagan: French playwright and novelist, 1935-2004)

WRITING : I sometimes hold it half a sin / To put in words the grief I feel / For words, like nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

WRITING : I think with my right hand. (Edmund Wilson: U.S. writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes and who influenced many U.S. authors, 1895-1972)

WRITING : If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843)

WRITING : If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Unknown Source: )

WRITING : If you write to impress, it will always be bad, but if you write to express, it will be good. (Thornton Wilder: U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

WRITING : Journalism allows its readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. (John Hersey: U.S. writer, journalist, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1914-1993)

WRITING : Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

WRITING : Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

WRITING : Maybe stories are just data with a soul. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)

WRITING : Memoirs are the backstairs of history. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)

WRITING : Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. (Olson S. Card: U.S. writer known best for his science fiction works)

WRITING : No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. (Russsell Lynes: U.S. art historian, photographer, author, and managing editor of Harper's Magazine, 1910-1981)

WRITING : Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

WRITING : Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels. (Dakin Williams: U.S. attorney, politician, author, and brother of the playwright, Tennessee Williams, 1919-2008)

WRITING : The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. (Unknown Source: )

WRITING : The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. (Thomas Hardy: English novelist and poet who was highly critical of much in Victorian society, 1840-1928)

WRITING : The first draft of anything is shit. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

WRITING : The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written. (Joyce C. Oates: U.S. author of novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, Born 1938)

WRITING : The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction should be completely believable. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

WRITING : The pen is mightier than the sword. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873)

WRITING : The pen is the tongue of the mind. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

WRITING : The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

WRITING : The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. (Richard H. Davis: U.S. journalist and war correspondent, 1864-1916)

WRITING : The waste basket is a writer's best friend. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991)

WRITING : The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

WRITING : There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavor to make it poetic. (J. M. Murry: English writer, so prolific an author as to have produced more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion, 1889-1957)

WRITING : To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both. (Elizabeth Charles: English writer, 1828-1896)

WRITING : We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WRITING : What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880)

WRITING : What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

WRITING : When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

WRITING : When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. (Wilson Mizner: playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur, 1876-1933)

WRITING : Write what should not be forgotten. (Isabel Allende: Chilean-American writer, Born 1942)

WRITING : Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. (Unknown Source: )

WRITING : Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. (E.L. Doctorow: U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015)

WRITING : Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. (Jules Renard: French writer, 1864-1910)

WRITING : Writing is like carrying a fetus. (Edna O'Brien: Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer, Born 1930)

WRITING : Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (E.L. Doctorow: U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015)

WRITING : Writing is one of the easiest things; erasing is one of the hardest. (Israel Salanter: Lithuanian-German rabbi and leader of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism, 1810-1873)

WRITING : Writing is thinking on paper. (William Zinsser: U.S. writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher, 1922-2015)

WRITING : Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

WRITING : Writing, when properly managed . . . is but a different name for conversation. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768)

WRITING : You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. (Unknown Source: )

WRITING : You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. (Brenda Ueland: U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985)

WRITING : You never had to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

WRONGDOING : Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. (Unknown Source: )

WRONGS : The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

WRONGS : Two wrongs do not make a right. (Unknown Source: )