Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? Great short quote and quotation by: Artemus Ward , US humorist (1834 – 1867)
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? Great short quote and quotation by: Groucho Marx , US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 – 1977)
Why was I born with such contemporaries? Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. Great short quote and quotation by: Winston Churchill ,
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Wife: a former sweetheart. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)
Wine is bottled poetry. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & […]
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace , Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Einstein , US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)