Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. |
Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible. |
Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts |
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth |
Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not |
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. |
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. |
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? |
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. |
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved |
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. |
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects. |
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration |
Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. |
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. |