Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. Pr.
Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. Pr.
Which death is preferable to every other? "The unexpected." Cæsar.
Which highest mortal, in this inane existence, had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted; and, when I looked through his brave garnitures, miserable enough? Carlyle.
Which is the great secret? The open secret 5 (open, that is, to all, seen by almost none). Goethe.
Which is the lightest in the scale of Fate? / That where fond Cupid still is adding weight. Quarles.
Which of all the philosophies think you will stand? / I know not, but philosophy itself, I hope will continue with us for ever. Schiller.
Which of your philosophical systems is other than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown? Carlyle.
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; / And in the lowest deep a lower deep, / Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, / To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. Milton.
Whichever you do, you will regret it. Socrates, 10 to one who asked him whether he should marry or not.