Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Wages are no index of well-being to the working man; without proper wages there can be no well-being; but with them also there may be none. Carlyle.

Wahres und Gutes wird sich versöhnen, / Wenn sich beide vermählen im Schönen—True and good will be reconciled when both are wedded in the beautiful. Rückert.

Wahrheit gegen Freund und Feind—Truth in spite of friend and foe alike. Schiller.

Wahrheit immer wird, nie ist—Truth always is a-being, never is. Schiller.

Wahrheit wird wohl gedrückt, aber nicht 20 erstickt—Truth may be smothered, but not extinguished. Ger. Pr.

Wait upon him whom thou art to speak to with thine eye; for there be many cunning men that have secret heads and transparent countenances. Burton.

Waiting answers sometimes as well as working. Mrs. Gatty.

Walk not with the world where it is walking wrong. Carlyle.

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. Carlyle.

Wann? wie? und wo? das ist die leidige 25 Frage—When? how? and where? That is the vexing question. Goethe.