Who is there that can clutch into the wheel-spokes of destiny, and say to the spirit of the time: Turn back, I command thee? Wiser were it that we yielded to the inevitable and inexorable, and accounted even this the best. Carlyle.
Who is't can say, I'm at the worst? / I'm worse than ere I was, / And worse I may be yet; the worst is not, / So long as we can say, / This is the worst. Lear, iv. 1.
Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who judgeth evil, God them amend. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, / And rots to nothing at the next great thaw. George Herbert.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book kills reason itself. Milton.
Who knows art half, speaks much and is always 5 wrong; who knows it wholly, inclines to act, and speaks seldom or late. Goethe.
Who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty? She needs no politics, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power; give her but room and do not bind her when she sleeps. Milton.
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else. A. B. Alcott.
Who knows what Love is, may not sup / On that which is not still divine. Dr. W. Smith.
Who leaves all receives more. Emerson.