What matters it whether the alphabet (by which you are to spell out the meaning of life) be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt ones, so you have an eye to read it? Carlyle.
What may be dune at ony time will be dune at 5 nae time. Sc. Pr.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. (?)
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related. Goethe.
What men want is not talent; it is purpose. Bulwer Lytton.
What millions died that Cæsar might be great! Campbell.
What must be, shall be. Rom. and Jul., iv. 1. 10
What Nature does not reveal to thy spirit, thou wilt not wrench from her with levers and screws. Goethe.
What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity; look, what will serve is fit. Much Ado, i. 1.
What need we have any friends, if we should never have need of them? Timon of Athens, i. 2.