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

Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und 20 was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig—What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational. Hegel.

Was verschmerze nicht der Mensch?—What can man not put up with? Schiller.

Was wir als Schönheit hier empfunden, / Wird einst als Wahrheit uns entgegengehn—What we have felt here as beauty will one day confront us as truth. Schiller.

Waste not time by trampling upon thistles because they have yielded us no figs. Here are books, and we have brains to read them; here is a whole Earth and a whole Heaven, and we have eyes to look on them. Carlyle.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. Bible.

Watch thy tongue; out of it are the issues of 25 life. Carlyle.

Watched pot never boils. Pr.

Watchman, what of the night? Bible.

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopœia. Napoleon.

Water cannot rise above the level from which it springs; no more can moral theories. J. C. Sharp.