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Free speech not only lives. It rocks! ... In the end, all you have is your reputation.
Oprah Winfrey, after winning a lawsuit by Texas cattlemen

If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
Dave Weinbaum

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Bern Williams

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better. ... I'm no angel.
Mae West

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them as much.
Oscar Wilde

We need to replace blame for what our parents didn't do with gratitude for what they did do.
Rebecca Wells

For of all sad words
Of tongue or pen
The saddest are these:
'What might have been.'
John Greenleaf Whittier

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Stephen Wright

When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Winnie the Pooh

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
George Wallace

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
George Winters

The only way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
Booker T. Washington

Be wary of people who don't like chocolate... when someone is so rigid that they don't ever want to indulge, you might wonder how sensual they are.
Kate Wachs, Chicago psychologist

When I woke up this morning, my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said, 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Stephen Wright

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
Dave Weinbaum

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Bob Wells

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
Steven Wright

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or build with them.
William Arthur Ward

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.
Bryan White

Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.
Roy H. Williams, author/master advertiser

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Martha Washington (1732-1802)

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Stephen Wright

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright

A window of opportunity won't open itself.
Dave Weinbaum

Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.
C.E. Welch, business executive

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West (1892-1980)

Being truthful, when you know it will cost you, is the true test of honesty.
Dave Weinbaum

Your biggest competitor is your own view of the future.
Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

It matters not whether you win or lose;
what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darren Weinberg

A woman needs only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape.
Phyllis Winter

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
Jackie Windspear

If it doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
Steven Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), architect

I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

What we have done has barely scratched the surface. It turns out that there is, in fact, unlimited juice in that lemon. The fact is, this is not about squeezing anything at all: it is about tapping an ocean of creativity, passion, and energy that, as far as we can see, has no bottom and no shores.
Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) as he sipped champagne on his deathbed

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters

You can't steal second and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

It's ironic that dreams are not real... because the only time that people are truly alive is when they are living their dreams.
Derrick Wesley

It's not the men in my life; it's the life in my men.
Mae West

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Artemus Ward

Biography lends to death to a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

We all have the ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder, musician

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), architect

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things, they transform their lives and the lives of those around them.
Oprah Winfrey

All daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty (1909-2001), writer

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard (1839-1898), educator

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
Oscar Wilde

Genius should never wed. You cannot serve two masters.
Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde AKA Speranza, Oscar Wilde's mother

Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
Edward O. Wilson, author/biologist

A true friend knows your weakness but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward, educator

Even as I hold you I am letting you go.
Alice Walker

No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), critic

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician, or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
Henry M. Wriston (1889-1978), 11th president of Brown University

No matter what is going on, you still have a choice - either what you do, or how you react. You may not like what happens, but there is still a choice. There is always a choice.
Rev. Mick Wilcox

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), writer

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
E.B. White (1899-1985), writer

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
Robin Williams

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will

I don't know why we're here, but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittenstein

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh

You are 100% responsible for 50% of any relationship.
Wyatt Webb

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan," 1892, Act III

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th U.S. President

Every experience is a learning experience. Every time we try something - win or lose - we learn, we grow, we attain more confidence and competence for the next time.
Pat Williams, basketball executive

You play the way you practice.
Pop Warner, football coach

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams (1911-83), dramatist

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E.B. White

You are not here merely to make a living; you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit or hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright

The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
Angel Kyodo Williams

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittenstein (1889-1951), philosopher

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P.G. Wodehouse, "The Man Upstairs" (1914)

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.
Marianne Williamson

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist,” part 2, 1891

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nobody is stronger... than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him.
Elie Wiesel, writer

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful, and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters

I believe that to win in life, you've got to become a dreamer again. You've got to become excited and "turned on" about your life and your future... And all most people really need is to know that there's a chance - an opportunity - for their dreams to come true.
Art Williams, business leader

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
Oprah Winfrey

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Oscar Wilde

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
Jane Wagner

The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Arch Ward (1896-1955), promoter and sports editor

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley, author and speaker

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington (1732-99)

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," 1891

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

For most of history, anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.
[language is a political distinction]
Max Weinreich (1894-1969), linguist/author

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate..."
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), playwright/novelist

Declare your mission - then live it!
Tom Welch, career coach

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