Whose Quotes

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work,
ask him: 'Whose?'
- Don Marquis

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that
untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The world has always been in an uproar,
and it always will be.
Choose Peace. Choose to live with Peace.
Choose to interact peacefully with everyone -
especially those whose instinct is not to be peaceful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as
an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck

Americans are the only people in the world known to
me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their
college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
- Paul Fussell

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is
glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
- Anne Roiphe

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else,
is powerless against truth.
- Thomas Huxley

The past is no more and the future is not yet.
The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,
whose arrow is directed to the moment,
who is always here and now; wherever he is,
his whole consciousness, his whole being,
is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
- Osho

The tendency of old age to the body,
say the physiologists,
is to form bone.
It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Everett Dirksen

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover,
through the detours of art, those two or three great
and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide,
and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
- Robert Hall

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men
whose wives think they are out having fun.
- Jim Bishop

God...
a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
- Ayn Rand

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope,
to love - and to put its trust in life.
- Joseph Conrad

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
- Andre Maurois

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan,
whose blood is in your own veins.
- Charles Alexander Eastman

Whose laws have priority in your life?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine,
purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,
no god being found worthy to preside over them.
- Eliza Farnham

Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose
interest had to be whetted,
still the case sadly.
- Jeremy Irons

Another man whose social life has ruined him.
- Dashiell Hammett

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
- Friedrich August von Hayek

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it -
who were dying to be in it,
whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do
the work that was necessary.
- Kenneth Branagh

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
- William O. Douglas

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any
resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
- Hermann von Helmholtz

Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman -
whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
- Lord Salisbury

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy,
to accomplish our will.
- George Washington

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below,
Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
- Bertrand Russell

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present,
called Truth the daughter of Time.
- Aulus Gellius

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job
it is to protect us by failing to provide them with
the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.
- Joe Lieberman

If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine,
O mother o' mine!
- Rudyard Kipling

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
- Madonna Ciccone

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the
species of woman in whose company he finds himself
electrified and enkindled,
but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
- George Jean Nathan

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more.
Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
- Mary Pipher

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.
- Craig Bruce

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside
jobs which enable him to paint.
A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
- Ben Shahn

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition
for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence
I shall defend until my dying day.
- Rosa Bonheur

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them
to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy,
those it educates to be evil in all things.
- Sophocles

An American, a Negro...
two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;
two warring ideals in one dark body,
whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
- W. E. B. Du Bois

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree;
if you agree with him he's a statesman.
- David Lloyd George

One performer whose band played my music better than
I could myself was Art Farmer.
He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
- Carla Bley

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
- Grandma Moses

Any important disease whose causality is murky,
and for which treatment is ineffectual,
tends to be awash in significance.
- Susan Sontag

Those whose life is long still strive for gain,
and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
- Sophocles

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be
a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president,
and then becomes the president.
- Karen Hughes

But always I was a private citizen whose activities
in government or political party were appointive.
- Jane Byrne

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken,
but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
- Lucinda Williams

We know these men are professionals whose services
are up for bid and whose bags are packed,
and yet we call them our own and take personal,
even civic pride in their accomplishments.
- John Thorn

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea,
whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
- Herman Melville

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