What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade? Pr. 15
What's the good of the pipe if it's not played on? Gael. Pr.
What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my ain. Sc. Pr.
Whate'er disturbs his onward course, / Whate'er brings gloom or strife, / It must away, for e'er he sings / The poet must have life. Goethe.
Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, / In him alone 'twas natural to please. Dryden.
Whate'er my future years may be: / Let joy 20 or grief my fate betide; / Be still an Eden bright to me / My own, my own fireside! A. A. Watts.
Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame. Ben. Franklin.
Whatever a man has to effect must emanate from him as a second self; and how would this be possible were not his first self entirely pervaded by it? Goethe.
Whatever be the cause of happiness, may be made likewise the cause of misery. The medicine which, rightly applied, has power to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance prescribes it, the same power to destroy. Johnson.
Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Johnson.