Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? / Have I so found it full of pleasing charms? / Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; / Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Burns.
Why are taste (Geschmack) and genius so 45 seldom willing to unite? The former is shy of power, the latter scorns restraint. Schiller.
Why complain of wanting light? It is courage, energy, perseverance that I want. Carlyle.
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections? Mme. de Sévigné.
Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? Carlyle.
Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound? Auerbach.
Why does that hyssop grow there in the chink of the wall? Because the whole universe, sufficiently occupied otherwise, could not hitherto prevent its growing. It has the might and the right. Carlyle.
Why don't the men propose, mamma? / Why 5 don't the men propose? T. H. Bayly.
Why dost thou try to find / Where charity doth flow? / Upon the waters cast thy bread, / Who eats it, who may know? Goethe.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? / For this plain reason—man is not a fly. Pope.