Stuart Murdock, USS Atlanta, off of Guadalcanal
We make too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
We must have a nation of all Americans. We must expel those who cannot
recite the Constitution of the United States and Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address.
William Harding
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
We must practice the art of war, so that our children can practice the art
of commerce, so that our grandchildren can practice the arts of painting,
pottery, and music.
John Quincy Adams
We regret that owing to a typographical error the closing sentence of Sir
David LLewellyn's article yesterday appeared as "Blessed are the merciful
for they shall receive money." "Money" should have read
"mercy."
correction in the Reading (England) Evening Post
We seek not to imitate the masters; rather, we seek what they sought.
ancient proverb
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good
grooming.
Don Delillo
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed
without them in Red Storm Rising.
Dan Quayle
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
We wanna be free. Free to ride our machines.
Biker, Easy Rider
We were able to slow down and dilute child care.
Bob Dole
We will either find a way or make one.
Attributed to Hannibal
We'd like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have
troubles.
Wesley Bolin
We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that
booger.
Gib Lewis
We're going to move left and right at the same time.
Jerry Brown
We're overpaying him but he's worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn
We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring
war.
Lewis Hershey
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we
need?
Lee Iacocca
Well, I'd say our greatest weakness is our lack of strength. Of course, I
think you'll see some improvement as we get better.
football coach
Well, that's the price you pay for paying no price.
Alex Heublein on having no documentation with pirated
software
Wennlund has an obscure, undistinguished record, and he's a poor dresser,
too.
Ray Hanania
What America needs now is a drink.
Franklin Roosevelt upon ending Prohibition
What I do to make sure my form and feet are lined up is I always have a
mirror right in front of me so I can look with my eyes at my body without
moving my head and when backing up I have tape on the ground where I
place the front of my feet so I know they are lined up even.
Tom Ball
What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true
that is.
Dan Quayle
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size
of the fight in the dog.
Dwight Eisenhower
What governs men is fear of truth.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
What is a house, anyway, but a big place to keep all your stuff? If we didn't
have so much stuff . . . we could just walk around all the time.
George Carlin
What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of
command.
Havelock Ellis
What we need are positive results, not press releases.
Dick Gephardt, in a press release
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves,
but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.
Jesus Christ
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power,
and magic in it.
Johann Von Göthe
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment
results.
Calvin Coolidge
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:
"whose?"
Don Marquis
When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
Aeschylus
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no compunction: take it
and use it!
Anatole France
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that
the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
When all is said and done, as a rule, more is said than
done.
Lou Holtz
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a
hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never
tried before.
Mae West
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over,
I buy food.
Erasmus
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad I'm
better.
Mae West
When it comes to ruining a painting, he's an artist.
Samuel Goldwyn
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself
sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy
silence.
Brand Blanshard
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt
you.
African proverb
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
anonymous
When two trains approach each other at a crossing, they shall both come to a
full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone.
Kansas law
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do--lose.
Dwight Eisenhower
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
anonymous
When you are sending 200,000 soldiers to war, you don't announce that from a
golf cart.
Melvin Gartin
When you feel terrific, notify your face.
Farid
When you get to the fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
When you hear hoofbeats, expect horses, not zebras.
unknown
When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn't the town you longed
for. It was your boyhood.
Earl Wilson
When you're through changing, you're through.
Bruce Barton
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little
demon.
Dave Sim
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
Hermann Goring
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found
Americans.
Alf Landon (in America)
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils
faster.
Abigail van Buren
White hair is not a sign of wisdom, only age.
Greek proverb
Who's to say the way a man should spend his days?
J. Mellencamp
Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages.
Turkish proverb
Why call him Joe? Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is called Joe.
Samuel Goldwyn
Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like
good Christians?
attributed to Arthur Balfour
Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speech maker," let it go at that
instead of giving a demonstration?
Kin Hubbard
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least trivialty
that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we
have told it to the same person?
La Rochefoucauld
Why is it that we rejoice at a wedding and cry at a funeral? It is because we
are not the person involved.
Mark Twain
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Artemus Ward
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the shortcut to
everything.
Samuel Johnson
Windows 95: n.
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of
competition.
Unknown
Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls
off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible
thing for the Padres.
Jerry Coleman
Within the problem lies the solution.
Milton Katselas
Women prefer Democrats to men.
Tony Coelho
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Words ephemeral
Mind is empty
Belly is full
Hands and wrists
Warm and damp
Dishes are done
B.P. Keever
Work to become, not to acquire.
Confucius
World's finest whiskey made from Scotland's finest grapes.
advertisement for a Japanese whiskey
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of
years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not
to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost