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By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in
the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were
still five feet between rails.
It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard,
in one day W Smile
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
 W. Leo Rosten on
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
 Wa Cleon Thucydides
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"
until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out,
we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.
 Wa Wanda
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
 Wade
Harry V.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
 Wagner
Jane
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
 Wagner
Lichty &
One good turn asketh another.
 Wagner
Michael J.
God is Dead.
 Walinsky
Adam
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
 Walker
Stanley
 Wallace
George
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
 Wallace
George
If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
 Wallach.
Carole
Hotels are tired of getting ripped off. I checked into a hotel and they
had towels from my house.
 Wanda
What we do not understand we do not possess.
 War Oliver
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, delve deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In work, be competent.
In action, be careful of your timing.
 Ward
A.
Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this:
to know so much and have control over nothing.
 Ward
Artemus
The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not
designed for people who walk on their hands.
 Ward
Jay
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
 Warhol
Andy
If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three
years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law
school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.
 Warhol
Andy
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men
should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal
weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine
we own.
 Warhol
Andy
What one fool can do, another can.
 Warner Jack
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
 Washington
Booker T.
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
 Washington
George
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
 Washlesky
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
 Watts
Alan
A man is known by the company he organizes.
 Wau Evelyn
According to my best recollection, I don't remember.
 Way
Glaser and
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 Wayfarer
Recently deceased blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan "comes to" after
his death. He sees Jimi Hendrix sitting next to him, tuning his guitar.
"Holy cow," he thinks to himself, "this guy is my idol." Over at the
microphone, about to sing, are Jim Mo Weaver
Ken
To do two things at once is to do neither.
 Webber
Dean
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the
expense of it.
 Webster
Daniel
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by
no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for
something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
 Weil Joseph
We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.
 Weiler
A.H.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
 Weinberg
Darrin
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
 Weiner
It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.
 Wellington
The Duke of
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
 Wellington Duke
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]
or
[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]
 Wells
Carolyn
The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.
 Wells
H.G.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
 Wells
H.G.
Roumanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.
 Wells
H.G.
Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Sign on a cathedral in Spain:
It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if
dressed as a man.
Above the enterance to a Cairo bar:
Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husb Wells
H.G.
The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases:
"Let our thoughts be correct".
 Wells
H.G.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Wells
J. Wellington
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth
have both failed.
 Wells
J. Wellington
The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene
of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process
as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The
employee is simply there o Wells H.G.
What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither
goest thou? Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
 West
Mae
There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of
discovering them over and over and over.
 West
Mae
Use an accordion. Go to jail.
 West
Rebecca
The streets were dark with something more than night.
 Whalen
Philip
An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a
great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures.
I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment.
I have given up everything I was aske Wheeler
Harvey
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while
you're being miserable.
 White
E. B.
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
 White
E.B.
You don't move to Edina, you achieve Edina.
 White
E.B.
We have art that we do not die of the truth.
 White
Paul
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 White
T.H.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is
in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that
is well; but also she will never  White
T.H.
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your
obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night
for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and
traps, his race survives White
William Allen
... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce
Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing
I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody
gets handed a name like "H.  White
William Allen
"You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks."
 White Katherine
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
 Whitehead
A.N.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both
incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by
twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
 Whitehead
Alfred North
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
 Whitehead
Alfred North
"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems
of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note.
Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care.
Because death is moment Whitehorn
Katharine
Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick
your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as
Mental Anguish. You would sue:
* The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions
 Who
Dr.
... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech
or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What
did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was
manager? One gets sometimes s Whorfin
Lord John
Mum's the word.
 Wicker
Tom
Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place
in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling
of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery.
 Wicker
Tom
Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think
about sex at all... they become lawyers.
 Wicker
Tom
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
 Wier
Bob
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
 Wiggam
Alfred E.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
 Wilde
Oscar
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
 Wilde
Oscar
I will make you shorter by the head.
 Wilde
Oscar
The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better
people, and don't come in clearly enough.
 Wilde
Oscar
You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
 Wilde
Oscar
To generalize is to be an idiot.
 Wilde
Oscar
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
 Wilde
Oscar
A sinking ship gathers no moss.
 Wilde
Oscar
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)
 Wilde
Oscar
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
 Wilde
Oscar
It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of
indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury
is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim
of infanticide.
 Wilde
Oscar
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
 Wilde
Oscar
When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women. I
shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do
what you like now."
 Wilde
Oscar
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
 Wilde
Oscar
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
 Wilde
Oscar
You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
 Wilde
Oscar
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad
woman scarcely exists.
 Wilde
Oscar
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
we speak.
 Wilde
Oscar
An old Jewish man reads about Einstein's theory of relativity
in the newspaper and asks his scientist grandson to explain it to him.
"Well, zayda, it's sort of like this. Einstein says that if
you're having your teeth drilled without Novocain, a mi Wilde
Oscar
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 Wilde
Oscar
"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
you believe?!"
 Wilde
Oscar
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."
 Wilde
Oscar
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
 Wilde
Oscar
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
 Wilde
Oscar
Go away, I'm all right.
 Wilde
Oscar
New Jersey is not the armpit of the nation; it's the asshole of the universe.
 Wilde
Oscar
It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.
 Wilde
Oscar
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.
 Wilde
Oscar
One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.
 Wilde
Oscar
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
 Wilde
Oscar
I knew her before she was a virgin.
 Wilde
Oscar
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
 Wilde Oscar
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to
amuse them.
 Wilde Oscar
If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an
oncoming train.
 Wilde Oscar
I have a simple philosophy:
Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
 Wilde Oscar
He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.
 Wilde Oscar
We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they
remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that
the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than
the kind of cleverness th Wilde Oscar
There seems no plan because it is all plan.
 Wilder
Billy
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened
into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the
hope of greening the landscape of idea.
 Wilder
Billy
Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy.
 Will
George
To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.
 Will
George
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
 Willard F. Libby
Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.
 William
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted
armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
 William Gibson
There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty.
"When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."
 William S. Paley
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
 William Shakespeare
"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around,
I'd rather lie around. No contest."
 William Shakespeare
If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a
guru at all?
 William Shakespeare
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
 William Shakespeare
If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.
 William Shakespeare
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
 Williams
H.H.
Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.
 Williams
Robin
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the
illiterates can read.
 Williams
Tennessee
Another day, another dollar.
 Williams Robin
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to
make it shorter.
 Williamson
Ren'e de Visme
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
 Williamson
Nicol
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
 Williamson Dr. Paul
Events are not affected, they develop.
 Willie Sutton
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is
irksome and three minutes is a long time.
 Wills
Derek
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with
little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
 Wilson
Earl
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
 Wilson
Earl
I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind
of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances
being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms
of talent, on who could make Wilson
Edmund
"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you
can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height
on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car
or a job? Do you ever Wilson
Woodrow
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
 Wilson Robert
The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made
her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.
 Win Sir
We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which
people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products.
Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spirtual
and emotional feelings. I Winch
Marty
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them
seemed to come from Texas.
 Winchell
Walter
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would
all be millionaires.
 Windsor-Heights
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
 Winkle
R.V.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto
undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
 Winston
If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three
years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law
school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.
 Winston
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is
lightly greased.
 Winters
George
To have died once is enough.
 Winters
Shelley
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.
 Wittgenstein
I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting:
a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
 Wittgenstein
Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't
using ain't ain't eatin' well.
 Wittgenstein.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or
whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
 Wo Sir Henry
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
 Wodehouse
Sean O'Casey on P.G.
One of my favorite jokes, a telling commentary on Jewish mothers' capacity
to lay on guilt, involves the mother who gave her son two neckties on Chanuka.
The boy hurried into his bedroom, ripped off the tie he was wearing,
put on one of the ties his Wolfe
Nero
My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot
replace it."
 Wolfe
Nero
The superfluous is very necessary.
 Wolfe
Thomas
So little time, so little to do.
 Wolfe Gene
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
 Wolfe Nero
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 Wood
Grant
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
 Woody Allen
The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the
number of participants.
 Woody Allen
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
 Woody Allen
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be
surprised at how little you have.
 Wordsworth
Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death
a fulfillment.
 Wright
Frank Lloyd
What an artist dies with me!
 Wright
Frank Lloyd
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that
reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away
someone else's cash.
 Wright
Frank Lloyd
A dead man cannot bite.
 Wurster Hall
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