Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. Herbert George Wells on adversity
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let ‘em wonder. I never believed in givin’ them too much of me. Mae West on advice
I was pure as the driven snow, then I drifted. Mae West on purity
Too much of a good thing can be taxing. Mae West on sex
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton on art
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's. Richard Whately on selfishness
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth. Richard Whately on truth
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. E.B. White on agreement
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web? E.B. White on beauty
The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. E.B. White on future
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. E.B. White on happiness
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. E.B. White on travel
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. Alfred North Whitehead on travel
O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do! Walt Whitman on animals
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. Walt Whitman on animals
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). Walt Whitman on individuality
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman on individuality
Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down. John Greenleaf Whittier on learning
Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Oscar Wilde on age
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. Oscar Wilde on age