Quotes U-Z

"Universities are designed for the convenience of the faculty, not for the convenience of the students."

- Adam Smith

"Unless a man feels he has a good memory, he should never venture to lie."

- Montaigne

"Up is, by definition, the direction which broadens horizons."

- A. Cygni

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef."

- Tom Robbins

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

- Francis Bacon

"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."

- Machiavelli

"Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm."

- John F. Kennedy

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

- John W. Gardner

"We are what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"We didn't inherit the land from our fathers. We are borrowing it from our children."

- Amish belief

"We don't look for truths, just excuses."

- A. Cygni

"We forgive once we give up attachment to our wounds."

- Lewis Hyde

"We have all passed a lot of water since then."

- Samuel Goldwyn

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."

- Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it that to consume wealth without producing it."

- George Bernard Shaw.

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."

- Oscar Wilde

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men could be cremated equal."

- Vern Parlow

"We must unterpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."

- Alfred Adler, Father of individual psychology (1870-1937)

"We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming."

- Don Delillo

"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

- Alfred North Whitehead, British philospher (1861-1947)

"Weep not that the world changes--did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

- William Cullen Bryant, American poet and editor (1794-1878)

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"What governs men is fear of truth."

- Henri Frédéric Amiel, Swiss poet, philosopher (1821-1881)

"What time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit."

- William Shakespeare

"What you get is a living; what you give is a life."

- Lilian Gish, American actress

"What's a thousand dollars? mere chicken feed. A 'poultry' matter."

- Groucho Marx

"When a dog bites a man, that's not news because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."

- John Bogart, American journalist (1845-1921)

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'whose?' - Don Marquis

"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 angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When I was a kid, my parents told me what to do. When I went to school, my teachers told me what to do. Now I'm married, and my husband tells me what to do. I'm not going to use a computer and let it tell me what to do."

- Anonymous

"When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad I'm better."

- Mae West

"When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results."

- Calvin Coolidge

"When one has good health it is not serious to be ill."

- Francis Blanche

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

- Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist.

"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 things go wrong, don't go with them."

- Anonymous

"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut"

- Anonymous

"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 I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver."

- Hermann Goring

"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

"Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages."

- Turkish proverb

"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 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

"Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything."

- Samuel Johnson

"Wir sind gewöhnt daß Leute verhöhnen was sie nicht versthehen." (We are aware that people will scoff what they do not understand)

- Unknown

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."

- Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)

"Woman is like a teabag; you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

- First Lady Nancy Reagan

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."

- Elie Wiesel

"Words wound. But as a veteran of twelve years in the United States Senate, I happily attest that they do not kill."

- Lyndon Johnson.

"Work to become, not to acquire."

- Confucius

"Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy."

- Nora Ephron

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

- Robert Frost

"You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- Yogi Berra

"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."

- Adali Stevenson

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

- Steven Wright

"You can't say civilizations don't advance . . . in every war they kill you in a new way."

- Will Rogers

"You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers."

- Timothy Leary

"You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it."

- W.S. Gilbert

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough."

- Earl of Chesterfield

"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitter for new projects than settled business."

- Francis Bacon

Glendower: "I can call the spirits from the vasty deep."
Hotspur: "Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"

- William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I, act iii, scene i

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