When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Jack Smith

When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming -- I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky."

Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson

When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Grantland Rice

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.

Nigerian Proverb

When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal.

Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) , Former U.S. President

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Elaine Boosler

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

Anonymous

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

Anonymous

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Mae West (1892-1980)

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Where would we be without salt?

James A. Beard

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S. Feuer

Wherever I climb I am followed by a dog called "Ego".

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Charles A. Lindbergh - Autobiography of Values

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)

Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Paton

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Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

Adolf Hitler

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

H. M. Warner (1881-1958) , Founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Ramsey Clark

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

H. L. F. von Helmholtz

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.

Claudette Colbert

Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong.

Anonymous

Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?

Artemus Ward

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

Winged words.

Homer

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Samuel Palmer (1805-1880)

Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Jane Austen

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Theodore Roosevelt

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Katherine Hepburn

Without music life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Woman was God's second mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Women complain about sex more than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.

Ann Landers

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Archard

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Maureen Dowd

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida

Work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

Worrying is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.

Anonymous

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

Joel Rosenberg - The Silver Crown

You are looking as fresh as paint.

F. E. Smedley

You are no better than you should be.

Francis Beaumont

You are one of the forces of nature.

Jules Michelet

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Anonymous

You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil; we just see no point in bothering to spread good.

Richard M. Mathews

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

Shimon Peres , Former Israeli Prime Minister, on the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

You can observe a lot by just watching. We made too many wrong mistakes.

Yogi Berra

You can only put as much intelligence in a system as was in the design engineer to begin with.

Peter Orme , Test Pilot, British Aerospace

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

You can see our respect for women by the fact that we have pledged to pay working women, even though they don't have to work.

Amir Khan Muttaqi Taliban Information Minister, on the Muslim fundamentalists' ban on Afghan women in the work force

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.

Ronald Reagan , Former U.S. President

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

You can't always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes you'll get what you need.

Anonymous

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER

Frank Zappa

You can't bring back the past, and you're not promised the future, so enjoy life now.

Kimo Paki

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

Steven Wright

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

H. R. Haldeman

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Uncle Remus

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

Edward Keating

You don't fuck around with the infinite.

Mean Streets

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John Morley

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

Princess Anne

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

You know my methods, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss.

Susanne Kollrack

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

J. M. Barrie

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.

Adam Marshall

You only make mistakes if you're doing real work and getting things done.

Anonymous

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller

You see things that are and say, "why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "why not?"

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

Charles Babbage

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

Martin Routh

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.

Viki King

You would attain to the divine perfection....

H. W. Longfellow

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck... I have no time for such nonsense.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) , commenting on Fulton's Steamship

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Ralph Marston

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Paul MacCready, Jr.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Pierre Laplace (1749-1827) , to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anonymous

Your problem is you're just too damn technically qualified in the subject!

Al Sodergren , to a visual systems expert at a simulation meeting.

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Chris Evert