What makes old age so sad is, not that our 40 joys, but that our hopes then cease. Jean Paul.
What makes people discontented with their condition is the chimerical idea they conceive of the happiness of others. Thomson.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us is that it wounds our own. La Roche.
What man dare do, in circumstances of danger, an Englishman will. His virtues seem to sleep in the calm, and are called out only to combat the kindred storm. Goldsmith.
What man dare, I dare. Macb., iii. 4.
What man didst thou ever know unthrift, that 45 was beloved after his means? Timon of Athens, iv. 3.
What man has done, man can do. Emerson.
What man wants is always that the highest in his nature be set at the top and actively reign there. Carlyle.
What matter though I doubt at every pore ... / If finally I have a life to show, / The thing I did, brought out in evidence / Against the thing done to me underground / By hell and all its brood, for aught I know? Browning.
What matters it though the Gospels contradict each other if the Gospel does not contradict itself? Goethe.