What is new finds better acceptance than what is good or great. Denham.
What is noble?—That which places / Truth in its enfranchised will, / Leaving steps, like angel-traces, / That mankind may follow still! C. Swain.
What is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. Saadi.
What is not sung is properly no poem, but a 40 piece of prose cramped into jingling lines,—to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for the most part! Carlyle.
What is not to be, that is not to be; if it be to come to pass, it cannot be otherwise. This reasoning is an antidote. Why doth not the afflicted one drink of it? Hitopadesa.
What is not true has this advantage that it can be eternally talked about; whereas about truth there is an urgency that cries out for its application, for otherwise it has no right to be there. Goethe.
What is not worth reading more than once is not worth reading at all. C. J. Weber.
What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. J. S. Mill.
What is obvious is not always known, and what 45 is known is not always present. Johnson.
What is of the earth has no permanence; our hearts yearn after a better land. H. A. Hoffmann.