Why insist, ye heroes, against the will of Jupiter, in pressing a Hercules into your enterprise? Know ye not that for him there is quite other work appointed, which he must do all alone, and not another with him? Ed.
Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? Jean Paul.
Why is it that we can better bear to part in 10 spirit than in body, and, while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it? Dickens.
Why is there no man who confesses his vices? It is because he has not yet laid them aside. It is a waking man only who can tell his dreams. Sen.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. Tam. the Shrew, i. 2.
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, / Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, / And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, / Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, / Under the canopies of costly state, / And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Why seek at once to dive into / The depth of 15 all that meets your view? / Wait for the melting of the snow, / And then you'll see what lies below. Prof. Blackie from Goethe.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Mer. of Venice, i. 1.
"Why should calamity be full of words?" / "Let them have scope; though what they do impart / Help not at all, yet do they ease the heart." Rich. III., iv. 4.