Wage
- "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
-- Henry Ford
- No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Low wages are not cheap wages.
-- Louis D. Brandeis
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
-- Edwin H. Stuart
- It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
-- Henry George
- We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.
-- Wendell Phillips
Want
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
-- Jonathan Swift
- It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
-- Henry Fielding
- He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- The keener the want the lustier the growth.
-- Wendell Phillips
- The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
-- Socrates
- The things that I can't have I want,
And what I have seems second-rate,
The things I want to do I can't,
And what I have to do I hate.
-- Don Marquis
- Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our necessities never equal our wants.
-- Benjamin Franklin
War
- Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
-- Will Rogers
- A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
-- Richard M. Nixon
- The next World War will be fought with stones.
-- Albert Einstein
- War is the science of destruction.
-- John Abbott
- The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
- War is hell.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
- War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
-- French Proverb
- I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
-- Georges Clemenceau
- When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty.
-- Arthur Ponsonby
- Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
-- Abraham Flexner
- I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
-- Will Rogers
- I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
-- Edmund Burke
- Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
-- Carl Sandburg
- How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
-- T. S. Eliot
- Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
-- Thucydides
- It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
-- Robert E. Lee
- The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
-- Lester Bowles Pearson
- Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
-- John Parker
- In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.
-- Peter Muhlenberg
- War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
-- Karl von Clausewitz
- War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
-- Walter Millis
- We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
-- Gamel Abdel Nasser
- All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
-- Gerald R. Ford
- Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
- The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
-- John A. Fisher
- Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.
-- Charles H. Maskins
- There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
-- Ulysses S. Grant
- There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
-- Andrew B. Law
- No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
-- Winston Churchill
- If the B-2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.
-- John Kasich (House Budget Committee Chairman)
Waste
- A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
-- Charles Darwin
- Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
-- Thomas A. Edison
- Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Willful waste brings woeful want.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
-- Victor Hugo
- The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
-- Orison S. Marden
- Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
-- Samuel Butler
- I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
-- Bernard Berenson
Weakness
- There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
-- James Russell Lowell
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
-- Lord Chesterfield
- Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
-- Josh Billings
- Our strength grows out of our weakness.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
- The weakest soul, within itself unblest,
- Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
- What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
-- Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Wealth
- The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-- Socrates
- Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
-- Andrew Carnegie
- We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
-- Winston Churchill
- Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
-- Wilson Mizner
- The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
- Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
-- Juvenal
- If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
-- Socrates
- Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it.
William Penn Patrick
- People want riches; they need fulfillment.
-- Bob Conklin
- The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
La Rochefoucauld
Weather
- Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-- John Ruskin
- The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
- If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
-- Mark Twain
- Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing
This pesky weather is;
It blew and snew and then it thew,
And now, by jing, it's friz!
-- Philander Johnson
- Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
-- Kin Hubbard
Wickedness
- To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
-- Confucius
- The sun also shines on the wicked.
-- Seneca
- God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
- No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
-- Livy
- There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
-- Cicero
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
-- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
-- Gideon Wurdz
- The world loves a spice of wickedness.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
-- Josh Billings
Wife
- Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
-- Kin Hubbard
- A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
-- Charles Reade
- He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.
-- Thomas Fuller
- A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goetke
- All married women are not wives.
-- Japanese Proverb
- Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
-- Andrew Jackson
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
-- Francis Bacon
- I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
- Teacher, tender comrade, wife,
A fellow-farer true through life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
- She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
-- William Penn
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