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“Keep bees and grow asparagus, watch the tides and listen to the wind instead of the politicians, make up your own stories and believe them, if you want to live the good life.” -Miriam Waddington
Miriam Waddington, also known by the pseudonym E. B. Merrit, was born as Miriam Dworkin on 23 December 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She became a social worker, a poet, a short story writer, and a translator. Miriam Waddington passed on at 86 years of age on 3 March 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” -Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard ‘Richard’ Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. He became a musical dramatist. Wilhelm Richard ‘Richard’ Wagner passed on at 69 years of age on 13 February 1883 in Venice, Italy.
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“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.” -John Wain
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“You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.” -Alfred Wainwright
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“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” -Denis Waitley
“Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself.” -Denis Waitley
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” -Denis Waitley
“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.” -Denis Waitley
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” -Denis Waitley
“Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show.” -Denis Waitley
“Our limitations and successes will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.” -Denis Waitley
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” -Denis Waitley
“There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.” -Denis Waitley
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” -Denis Waitley
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.” -Denis Waitley
Denis E. Waitley was born in 1933. He is an American motivational speaker, speaker trainer, and writer of self-help books. Mr. Waitley is a founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.
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“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me . . . I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you . . . you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” -Tom Waits
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“It’s important the people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for.” -Mary H. Waldrip
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“Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious.” -Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa was born in 1943. He is a Polish trade union leader and a politician.
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I perceive all the professors of esoteric knowledge
to be full of learning with no application -
Day and night wasting their lives,
pursuing discussion, chatter, and empty disputation.
-Ni’matullah Wali
Ni’matullah Wali was born in 1331 in Aleppo, Syria. He became a poet. Ni’matullah Wali passed on at about 100 years of age on 5 April 1431.
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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” -Alice Walker
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” -Alice Walker
“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker was born on 9 February 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, United States of America. She became a short story writer, a novelist, a poet, and an essayist.
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“When Arturo Toscanini was eighty years old, someone asked his son what his father ranked as his greatest achievement. The response was eloquent: ‘For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life, whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange.’” -Harold Blake Walker
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“Opportunities are merely problems that promise to pay off after sufficient work.” -John Walker
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” -Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker was born in 1915. She was an American writer and educator. Margaret Walker passed on in 1998.
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“I’ve read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents.” -George C. Wallace: comment during his 1968 presidential campaign
George Corley Wallace was born in 1919. He was an American politician. George Corley Wallace passed on in 1998.
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“For me, walking the tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.” -Karl Wallenda
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“To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.” -Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole was born on 24 September 1717 in London, England. He became a politician, a writer, and a man of letters. Horace Walpole passed on at 79 years of age on 2 March 1797 in Berkeley Square, London, England.
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“We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.” -Basil S. Walsh
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“Few things offer greater return on less investment than praise.” -Bill Walsh
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“When you look for good in others, you discover the best in yourself.” -Martin Walsh
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“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” -J. Donald Walters
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Old tree
How many storms
You have withstood
while I
Frail creature
Find myself dismayed by one.
-Nina Willis Walter
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“If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own voice. It is so easy too! Yet if we could say less and do more for each other’s good not alone would every home be happier but communities would he enriched thereby. Instead of criticism by speech to show someone a better way to do a thing would be of much greater value.” -John Wanamaker
“Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.” -John Wanamaker
John Wanamaker was born in 1838. He was a businessman who pioneered the department store concept. John Wanamaker passed on in 1922.
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“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.” -An Wang
An Wang was born in 1920. He was an American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of the computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines. He was an important contributor to the development of magnetic core memory. An Wang passed on in 1990.
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Human hopes and human creeds
Have their roots in human needs.
-Eugene Fitch Ware
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“Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering.” -Rick Warren
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“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.” -Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was born in 1829. He was an American newspaperman, writer, editor, and publisher. Charles Dudley Warner passed on in 1900.
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“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.” -Booker T. Washington
“An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.” -Booker T. Washington
“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.” -Booker T. Washington
“Character is power.” -Booker T. Washington
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” -Booker T. Washington
“I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.” -Booker T. Washington
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.” -Booker T. Washington
“I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” -Booker T. Washington
“I will permit no man . . . to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” -Booker T. Washington: “Up from Slavery” (1901), chapter 11
“Ignorance is more costly to any state than education.” -Booker T. Washington (1898)
“No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” -Booker T. Washington
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” -Booker T. Washington
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” -Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on 5 April 1856 near Hale’s Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, United States of America. He became a teacher, a writer, an orator, and a presidential advisor. Booker Taliaferro Washington passed on at 59 years of age on 14 November 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America.
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“He who stops being better stops being good.” -Thomas J. Watson
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” -Thomas J. Watson
“In order to be a success in business there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is ‘work.’ I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work: ‘enthusiasm.’ That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough ‘knowledge’ of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.” -Thomas J. Watson: speech at Princeton University (13 October 1928)
“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?” -Thomas J. Watson
“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.” -Thomas J. Watson
“Within us all are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then often times we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capabilities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.” -Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson, Senior was born in 1874. He was an American industrialist and the founder and chairman (1914 - 1956) of International Business Machines (IBM). Thomas J. Watson, Senior passed on in 1956.
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“But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.” -Alan Watts
“Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are impermanent.” -Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts was born on 6 January 1915 in Chislehurst, Kent, England. He immigrated to the United States of America in 1938. He became a philosopher, a writer, and a speaker. Alan Wilson Watts passed on at 58 years of age on 16 November 1973.
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“It’s not a question of who’s going to throw the first stone; it’s a question of who’s going to start building with it.” -Sloan Wilson
Sloan Wilson was born in 1920. He was an American writer. Sloan Wilson passed on in 2003.
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“We are tomorrow’s past.” -Mary Webb
Mary Webb was born in 1881. She was an English romantic novelist and poet whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably in the film, “Gone to Earth” (1950), by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Mary Webb passed on in 1927.
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“There is always room at the top.” -Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster was born on 18 January 1782 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a statesman, an orator, and an American Secretary of State. Daniel Webster passed on at 70 years of age on 24 October 1852 in Marshfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” -Dave Weinbaum
“The most important lesson that you can learn from winning is that you can!” -Dave Weinbaum
“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.” -Dave Weinbaum
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“If you want better service, try thanking people every time they do something for you. It takes a half second.” -Alan Weiss: “Millionaire Consultant”
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“Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be part of.” -Geri Weitzman
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“Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the ‘impossible,’ we very soon would find the truth of that old saw that nothing is impossible . . . Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.” -C. E. Welch
C. E. Welch is a business executive.
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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” -Jack Welch
“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch
John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior was born in 1935. He is an American business executive, writer, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric (1981 - 2001).
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“This could be such a beautiful world if only we could all care just a little more.” -Rosiland Welcher
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“The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: It is work.” -William Weld
William Weld is a politician and an attorney.
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“My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds.” -Mel Weldon
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“I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.” -Orson Welles
Orson Welles was born in 1915. He was an American actor, writer, producer, and director. Orson Welles passed on in 1985.
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“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry West
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“Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.” -Mae West
Mary Jane ‘Mae’ West was born on 17 August 1893 in Kings County, New York, United States of America. She was an American stage and movie actress, singer, comedian, playwright, and screenwriter. Mary Jane ‘Mae’ West passed on at 87 years of age on 22 November 1980 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.” -Edith Wharton
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” -Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born in 1862. She became a writer. Edith Wharton passed on in 1937.
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“He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.” -Richard Whately
Richard Whately was born on 1 February 1787 in Cavendish Square, London, England. He became a rhetorician, a logician, an economist, an academic, a theologian, and a writer. Richard Whately passed on at 76 years of age on 8 October 1863 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.
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“Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.” -Joss Whedon
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. Make.” -Joss Whedon
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“Only the loving find love, and they never have to look.” -Alice Wheeler
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And so no force however great
Can stretch a cord however fine
Into a horizontal line
That shall be absolutely straight.
-William Whewell: example of accidental metre and rhyme
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“Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.” -Edwin Whipple
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“A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.” -Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn was born in 1928 in Hendon, Greater London, England. She is a journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humor.
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“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“To see what is general in what is particular and what is permanent in what is transitory is the aim of scientific thought.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“We think in generalities, but we live in details.” -Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was born on 15 February 1861 in Ramsgate, Kent, England. He became a mathematician and a logician. Alfred North Whitehead passed on at 86 years of age on 30 December 1947 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” -Dennis Wholey
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“The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.” -Bradley Wiggins
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“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.” -William Wilberforce
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“Reach for you dreams, and they will reach for you.” -Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was born in 1906.
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“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867. She was an American writer. She is known as the author of the “Little House on the Prairie” series of novels. Laura Ingalls Wilder passed on in 1957.
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“I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.” -Thornton Wilder
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. I would feel enormous satisfaction in being regarded as the voice of the average American.” -Thornton Wilder
“We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” -Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was born in 1897. He was an American novelist and dramatist. Thornton Niven Wilder passed on in 1975.
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“I haven’t got time to be tired.” -Wilhelm I
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“People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.” -C. Gene Wilkes
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“I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less.” -Francis Elizabeth Willard
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” -Frances E. Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born on 28 September 1839 in Churchville, New York, United States of America. She became a teacher, a temperance reformer, a women’s suffragist, and a President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard passed on at 58 years of age on 17 February 1898.
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“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.” -A. D. Williams
“Man is not the only animal that likes to have fun, to play, to find the joy in life.” -A. D. Williams
“The words we choose to speak decide the life we choose to live.” -A. D. Williams
“Truths are quiet. Lies are loud.” -A. D. Williams
Anthony Douglas Williams was born in Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and magazine editor. Before beginning to research and write his book, “Inside the Divine Pattern,” he was in the film industry. He opened his own family film distribution company in the early 1990’s, as he was against the increasing violence in mainstream films.
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“The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.” -Donald Williams
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“To anyone that ever told you you’re no good . . . They’re no better.” -Hayley Williams
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“When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.” -Roger Williams
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“Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?” -Roy H. Williams
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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” -Tad Williams
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“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on Earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine.” -Marianne Williamson
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” -Marianne Williamson
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” -Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson was born in July 1952. She is an American writer and lecturer.
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“There is no royal road; you have got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.” -Charles E. Wilson
Charles Erwin Wilson was born in 1890. He was an American automobile businessman. Charles Erwin Wilson passed on in 1961.
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“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist. The world needs all you can give.” -E. O. Wilson
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“Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride and something to look forward to with hope.” -Oliver G. Wilson
Oliver G. Wilson was a Reverend in the Wesleyan denomination of Christianity.
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“We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.” -Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell was born on 7 April 1897. He was an American journalist and broadcaster. Walter Winchell passed on at 74 years of age on 20 February 1972.
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“Personal deficiencies might be termed negative qualities and include unreliability, failure to cooperate, laziness, untidiness, trouble making, interference, and dishonesty. Positive qualities would include willingness, cheerfulness, courtesy, honesty, neatness, reliability, and temperance. Many fail in their work because they are unable to overcome one personal deficiency. Check up on yourself. Don’t be afraid to put yourself under a microscope. Eliminate your negative qualities. Develop your positive ones. You can’t win with the check mark in the wrong place.” -M. Winette
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“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” -Larry Winget
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“No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.” -William Winter
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“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.” -Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson was born in 1959. She is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” a semi-autobiographical novel about a teenage girl. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
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“Life offers two great gifts - time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” -Richard I. Winword
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“A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much.” -Ken Wisdom
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“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I’m a rather bad guide.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein: as quoted in Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, editors: “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information” (2008), page 140
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“My difficulty is only an enormous difficulty of expression.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Journal entry (8 March 1915) as quoted in Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, translator: “Notebooks 1914 - 1916” (1961), page 40
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” -Wittgenstein: “Philosophical Investigations”
“Words are deeds.” [translation to English]
“Worte sind Taten.” [original German]
-Ludwig Wittgenstein: as quoted in Peter Winch, translator: “Vermischte Bemerkungen” (1977), page 50
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on 26 April 1889 in Vienna, Austria. He spent much of his life in England. He became a philosopher in logic, mathematics, mind, and language. He taught at the University of Cambridge (1929 - 1947). During his lifetime, he published one book, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” one article, one book review, and one children’s dictionary. However, he wrote large volumes of manuscripts that were edited and published after his passing, some of which are published as “Philosophical Investigations” (1953). Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein passed on at 62 years of age on 29 April 1951 in Cambridge, England.
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“The butler entered the room, a solemn procession of one.” -P. G. Wodehouse
“While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled.” -P. G. Wodehouse
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, also known as P. G. Wodehouse, was born in 1881 in Guildford, England. He became a novelist and a humorist. He started his career in banking, but disliked the work, and turned to writing in his spare time. He became an American citizen in 1955. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse passed on in 1975.
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“In briefings to busy people, summarize at the beginning what you’re going to tell them, then tell them, then summarize at the end what you have told them.” -Charles Wolf, Junior
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“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. She was an English writer in the genres of novels, travel, etiquette, history, and children’s literature. She is known for the work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Mary Wollstonecraft passed on in 1797.
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“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never get it out.” -Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey was born in 1471. Thomas Cardinal Wolsey passed on in 1530.
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“The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will be boss.” -Carl Wood
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“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” -Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, also known as E. F. L. Wood, was born on 16 April 1881 in Powderham Castle, Devon, England. He became a British politician. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood passed on at 78 years of age on 23 December 1959 in Garrowby Hall, Yorkshire, England.
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“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” -George E. Woodberry
“If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.” -George E. Woodberry
“The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love.” -George E. Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry, sometimes spelled Woodbury, was born on 12 May 1855 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a writer, a literary critic, and a poet. George Edward Woodberry passed on at 74 years of age on 2 January 1930 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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Out of the strain of the Doing
Into the peace of the Done.
-Julia Louise Woodruff: ‘Sunday at Home’ published in “Harvest Home” (1910)
Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff (maiden name Curtiss), also known by the pseudonym W. M. L. Jay (being a reversal of her initials and with the letter J made into Jay), was born on 29 April 1832 in Newtown, Connecticut, United States of America. She was married to Curtiss T. Woodruff (1817 - 1887) on 10 February 1849 and resided in New York City. She became a writer, a poet, and a compiler of books. She is known as the author of “Shiloh” (1870), “My Winter in Cuba” (1871), “Holden with the Cords (1876),” “He Giveth Songs” (1881) “Daisy Seekers” (1885), “Life’s Sunny Side” (1886), and “Bellevue” (1891). Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff passed on at 76 years of age on 21 April 1909.
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“There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” -Robert Woodruff
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“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.” -Harriet Woods
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“His huff arrived and he departed in it.” -Alexander Woollcott
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born on 19 January 1887 in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey, United States of America. He became a writer for the “The New Yorker Magazine,” an actor, an playwright, and a radio commentator. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott passed on at 56 years of age on 23 January 1943 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf: “A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” -Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf was born as Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. She became a novelist, an essayist, a publisher, and a critic. Her notable works include, “To the Lighthouse” (1927), “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925), “Orlando” (1928), and the book-length essay, “A Room of One’s Own” (1929). Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf passed on at 59 years of age on 28 March 1941 in River Ouse (near Lewes), Sussex, England.
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“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was born Frank Lincoln Wright on 8 June 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States of America. He became an architect, an interior designer, a writer, and an educator. Among his more than 1,000 structural designs and 532 completed works are “Fallingwater” and the Usonian home concept. Frank Lloyd Wright passed on at 91 years of age on 9 April 1959.
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“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.” -William Wrigley, Junior
“When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” -William Wrigley, Junior
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“Great men with great truths have seldom had much support from their associates.” -Philip Wylie
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“Keep bees and grow asparagus, watch the tides and listen to the wind instead of the politicians, make up your own stories and believe them, if you want to live the good life.” -Miriam Waddington
Miriam Waddington, also known by the pseudonym E. B. Merrit, was born as Miriam Dworkin on 23 December 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She became a social worker, a poet, a short story writer, and a translator. Miriam Waddington passed on at 86 years of age on 3 March 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” -Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard ‘Richard’ Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. He became a musical dramatist. Wilhelm Richard ‘Richard’ Wagner passed on at 69 years of age on 13 February 1883 in Venice, Italy.
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“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.” -John Wain
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“You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.” -Alfred Wainwright
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“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” -Denis Waitley
“Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself.” -Denis Waitley
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” -Denis Waitley
“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.” -Denis Waitley
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” -Denis Waitley
“Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show.” -Denis Waitley
“Our limitations and successes will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.” -Denis Waitley
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” -Denis Waitley
“There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.” -Denis Waitley
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” -Denis Waitley
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.” -Denis Waitley
Denis E. Waitley was born in 1933. He is an American motivational speaker, speaker trainer, and writer of self-help books. Mr. Waitley is a founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.
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“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me . . . I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you . . . you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” -Tom Waits
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“It’s important the people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for.” -Mary H. Waldrip
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“Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious.” -Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa was born in 1943. He is a Polish trade union leader and a politician.
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I perceive all the professors of esoteric knowledge
to be full of learning with no application -
Day and night wasting their lives,
pursuing discussion, chatter, and empty disputation.
-Ni’matullah Wali
Ni’matullah Wali was born in 1331 in Aleppo, Syria. He became a poet. Ni’matullah Wali passed on at about 100 years of age on 5 April 1431.
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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” -Alice Walker
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” -Alice Walker
“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker was born on 9 February 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, United States of America. She became a short story writer, a novelist, a poet, and an essayist.
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“When Arturo Toscanini was eighty years old, someone asked his son what his father ranked as his greatest achievement. The response was eloquent: ‘For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life, whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange.’” -Harold Blake Walker
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“Opportunities are merely problems that promise to pay off after sufficient work.” -John Walker
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” -Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker was born in 1915. She was an American writer and educator. Margaret Walker passed on in 1998.
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“I’ve read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents.” -George C. Wallace: comment during his 1968 presidential campaign
George Corley Wallace was born in 1919. He was an American politician. George Corley Wallace passed on in 1998.
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“For me, walking the tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.” -Karl Wallenda
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“To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.” -Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole was born on 24 September 1717 in London, England. He became a politician, a writer, and a man of letters. Horace Walpole passed on at 79 years of age on 2 March 1797 in Berkeley Square, London, England.
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“We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.” -Basil S. Walsh
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“Few things offer greater return on less investment than praise.” -Bill Walsh
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“When you look for good in others, you discover the best in yourself.” -Martin Walsh
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“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” -J. Donald Walters
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Old tree
How many storms
You have withstood
while I
Frail creature
Find myself dismayed by one.
-Nina Willis Walter
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“If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own voice. It is so easy too! Yet if we could say less and do more for each other’s good not alone would every home be happier but communities would he enriched thereby. Instead of criticism by speech to show someone a better way to do a thing would be of much greater value.” -John Wanamaker
“Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.” -John Wanamaker
John Wanamaker was born in 1838. He was a businessman who pioneered the department store concept. John Wanamaker passed on in 1922.
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“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.” -An Wang
An Wang was born in 1920. He was an American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of the computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines. He was an important contributor to the development of magnetic core memory. An Wang passed on in 1990.
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Human hopes and human creeds
Have their roots in human needs.
-Eugene Fitch Ware
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“Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering.” -Rick Warren
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“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.” -Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was born in 1829. He was an American newspaperman, writer, editor, and publisher. Charles Dudley Warner passed on in 1900.
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“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.” -Booker T. Washington
“An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.” -Booker T. Washington
“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.” -Booker T. Washington
“Character is power.” -Booker T. Washington
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” -Booker T. Washington
“I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.” -Booker T. Washington
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.” -Booker T. Washington
“I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” -Booker T. Washington
“I will permit no man . . . to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” -Booker T. Washington: “Up from Slavery” (1901), chapter 11
“Ignorance is more costly to any state than education.” -Booker T. Washington (1898)
“No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” -Booker T. Washington
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” -Booker T. Washington
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” -Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on 5 April 1856 near Hale’s Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, United States of America. He became a teacher, a writer, an orator, and a presidential advisor. Booker Taliaferro Washington passed on at 59 years of age on 14 November 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America.
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“He who stops being better stops being good.” -Thomas J. Watson
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” -Thomas J. Watson
“In order to be a success in business there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is ‘work.’ I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work: ‘enthusiasm.’ That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough ‘knowledge’ of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.” -Thomas J. Watson: speech at Princeton University (13 October 1928)
“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?” -Thomas J. Watson
“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.” -Thomas J. Watson
“Within us all are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then often times we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capabilities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.” -Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson, Senior was born in 1874. He was an American industrialist and the founder and chairman (1914 - 1956) of International Business Machines (IBM). Thomas J. Watson, Senior passed on in 1956.
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“But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.” -Alan Watts
“Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are impermanent.” -Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts was born on 6 January 1915 in Chislehurst, Kent, England. He immigrated to the United States of America in 1938. He became a philosopher, a writer, and a speaker. Alan Wilson Watts passed on at 58 years of age on 16 November 1973.
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“It’s not a question of who’s going to throw the first stone; it’s a question of who’s going to start building with it.” -Sloan Wilson
Sloan Wilson was born in 1920. He was an American writer. Sloan Wilson passed on in 2003.
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“We are tomorrow’s past.” -Mary Webb
Mary Webb was born in 1881. She was an English romantic novelist and poet whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably in the film, “Gone to Earth” (1950), by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Mary Webb passed on in 1927.
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“There is always room at the top.” -Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster was born on 18 January 1782 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a statesman, an orator, and an American Secretary of State. Daniel Webster passed on at 70 years of age on 24 October 1852 in Marshfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” -Dave Weinbaum
“The most important lesson that you can learn from winning is that you can!” -Dave Weinbaum
“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.” -Dave Weinbaum
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“If you want better service, try thanking people every time they do something for you. It takes a half second.” -Alan Weiss: “Millionaire Consultant”
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“Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be part of.” -Geri Weitzman
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“Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the ‘impossible,’ we very soon would find the truth of that old saw that nothing is impossible . . . Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.” -C. E. Welch
C. E. Welch is a business executive.
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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” -Jack Welch
“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch
John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior was born in 1935. He is an American business executive, writer, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric (1981 - 2001).
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“This could be such a beautiful world if only we could all care just a little more.” -Rosiland Welcher
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“The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: It is work.” -William Weld
William Weld is a politician and an attorney.
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“My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds.” -Mel Weldon
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“I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.” -Orson Welles
Orson Welles was born in 1915. He was an American actor, writer, producer, and director. Orson Welles passed on in 1985.
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“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry West
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“Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.” -Mae West
Mary Jane ‘Mae’ West was born on 17 August 1893 in Kings County, New York, United States of America. She was an American stage and movie actress, singer, comedian, playwright, and screenwriter. Mary Jane ‘Mae’ West passed on at 87 years of age on 22 November 1980 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.” -Edith Wharton
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” -Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born in 1862. She became a writer. Edith Wharton passed on in 1937.
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“He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.” -Richard Whately
Richard Whately was born on 1 February 1787 in Cavendish Square, London, England. He became a rhetorician, a logician, an economist, an academic, a theologian, and a writer. Richard Whately passed on at 76 years of age on 8 October 1863 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.
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“Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.” -Joss Whedon
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. Make.” -Joss Whedon
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“Only the loving find love, and they never have to look.” -Alice Wheeler
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And so no force however great
Can stretch a cord however fine
Into a horizontal line
That shall be absolutely straight.
-William Whewell: example of accidental metre and rhyme
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“Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.” -Edwin Whipple
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“A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.” -Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn was born in 1928 in Hendon, Greater London, England. She is a journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humor.
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“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“To see what is general in what is particular and what is permanent in what is transitory is the aim of scientific thought.” -Alfred North Whitehead
“We think in generalities, but we live in details.” -Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was born on 15 February 1861 in Ramsgate, Kent, England. He became a mathematician and a logician. Alfred North Whitehead passed on at 86 years of age on 30 December 1947 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” -Dennis Wholey
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“The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.” -Bradley Wiggins
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“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.” -William Wilberforce
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“Reach for you dreams, and they will reach for you.” -Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was born in 1906.
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“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867. She was an American writer. She is known as the author of the “Little House on the Prairie” series of novels. Laura Ingalls Wilder passed on in 1957.
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“I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.” -Thornton Wilder
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. I would feel enormous satisfaction in being regarded as the voice of the average American.” -Thornton Wilder
“We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” -Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was born in 1897. He was an American novelist and dramatist. Thornton Niven Wilder passed on in 1975.
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“I haven’t got time to be tired.” -Wilhelm I
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“People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.” -C. Gene Wilkes
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“I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less.” -Francis Elizabeth Willard
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” -Frances E. Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born on 28 September 1839 in Churchville, New York, United States of America. She became a teacher, a temperance reformer, a women’s suffragist, and a President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard passed on at 58 years of age on 17 February 1898.
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“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.” -A. D. Williams
“Man is not the only animal that likes to have fun, to play, to find the joy in life.” -A. D. Williams
“The words we choose to speak decide the life we choose to live.” -A. D. Williams
“Truths are quiet. Lies are loud.” -A. D. Williams
Anthony Douglas Williams was born in Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and magazine editor. Before beginning to research and write his book, “Inside the Divine Pattern,” he was in the film industry. He opened his own family film distribution company in the early 1990’s, as he was against the increasing violence in mainstream films.
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“The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.” -Donald Williams
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“To anyone that ever told you you’re no good . . . They’re no better.” -Hayley Williams
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“When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.” -Roger Williams
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“Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?” -Roy H. Williams
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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” -Tad Williams
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“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on Earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine.” -Marianne Williamson
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” -Marianne Williamson
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” -Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson was born in July 1952. She is an American writer and lecturer.
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“There is no royal road; you have got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.” -Charles E. Wilson
Charles Erwin Wilson was born in 1890. He was an American automobile businessman. Charles Erwin Wilson passed on in 1961.
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“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist. The world needs all you can give.” -E. O. Wilson
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“Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride and something to look forward to with hope.” -Oliver G. Wilson
Oliver G. Wilson was a Reverend in the Wesleyan denomination of Christianity.
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“We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.” -Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell was born on 7 April 1897. He was an American journalist and broadcaster. Walter Winchell passed on at 74 years of age on 20 February 1972.
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“Personal deficiencies might be termed negative qualities and include unreliability, failure to cooperate, laziness, untidiness, trouble making, interference, and dishonesty. Positive qualities would include willingness, cheerfulness, courtesy, honesty, neatness, reliability, and temperance. Many fail in their work because they are unable to overcome one personal deficiency. Check up on yourself. Don’t be afraid to put yourself under a microscope. Eliminate your negative qualities. Develop your positive ones. You can’t win with the check mark in the wrong place.” -M. Winette
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“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” -Larry Winget
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“No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.” -William Winter
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“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.” -Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson was born in 1959. She is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” a semi-autobiographical novel about a teenage girl. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
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“Life offers two great gifts - time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” -Richard I. Winword
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“A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much.” -Ken Wisdom
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“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I’m a rather bad guide.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein: as quoted in Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, editors: “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information” (2008), page 140
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“My difficulty is only an enormous difficulty of expression.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Journal entry (8 March 1915) as quoted in Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, translator: “Notebooks 1914 - 1916” (1961), page 40
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” -Wittgenstein: “Philosophical Investigations”
“Words are deeds.” [translation to English]
“Worte sind Taten.” [original German]
-Ludwig Wittgenstein: as quoted in Peter Winch, translator: “Vermischte Bemerkungen” (1977), page 50
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on 26 April 1889 in Vienna, Austria. He spent much of his life in England. He became a philosopher in logic, mathematics, mind, and language. He taught at the University of Cambridge (1929 - 1947). During his lifetime, he published one book, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” one article, one book review, and one children’s dictionary. However, he wrote large volumes of manuscripts that were edited and published after his passing, some of which are published as “Philosophical Investigations” (1953). Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein passed on at 62 years of age on 29 April 1951 in Cambridge, England.
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“The butler entered the room, a solemn procession of one.” -P. G. Wodehouse
“While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled.” -P. G. Wodehouse
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, also known as P. G. Wodehouse, was born in 1881 in Guildford, England. He became a novelist and a humorist. He started his career in banking, but disliked the work, and turned to writing in his spare time. He became an American citizen in 1955. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse passed on in 1975.
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“In briefings to busy people, summarize at the beginning what you’re going to tell them, then tell them, then summarize at the end what you have told them.” -Charles Wolf, Junior
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“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. She was an English writer in the genres of novels, travel, etiquette, history, and children’s literature. She is known for the work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Mary Wollstonecraft passed on in 1797.
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“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never get it out.” -Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey was born in 1471. Thomas Cardinal Wolsey passed on in 1530.
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“The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will be boss.” -Carl Wood
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“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” -Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, also known as E. F. L. Wood, was born on 16 April 1881 in Powderham Castle, Devon, England. He became a British politician. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood passed on at 78 years of age on 23 December 1959 in Garrowby Hall, Yorkshire, England.
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“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” -George E. Woodberry
“If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.” -George E. Woodberry
“The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love.” -George E. Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry, sometimes spelled Woodbury, was born on 12 May 1855 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a writer, a literary critic, and a poet. George Edward Woodberry passed on at 74 years of age on 2 January 1930 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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Out of the strain of the Doing
Into the peace of the Done.
-Julia Louise Woodruff: ‘Sunday at Home’ published in “Harvest Home” (1910)
Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff (maiden name Curtiss), also known by the pseudonym W. M. L. Jay (being a reversal of her initials and with the letter J made into Jay), was born on 29 April 1832 in Newtown, Connecticut, United States of America. She was married to Curtiss T. Woodruff (1817 - 1887) on 10 February 1849 and resided in New York City. She became a writer, a poet, and a compiler of books. She is known as the author of “Shiloh” (1870), “My Winter in Cuba” (1871), “Holden with the Cords (1876),” “He Giveth Songs” (1881) “Daisy Seekers” (1885), “Life’s Sunny Side” (1886), and “Bellevue” (1891). Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff passed on at 76 years of age on 21 April 1909.
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“There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” -Robert Woodruff
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“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.” -Harriet Woods
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“His huff arrived and he departed in it.” -Alexander Woollcott
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born on 19 January 1887 in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey, United States of America. He became a writer for the “The New Yorker Magazine,” an actor, an playwright, and a radio commentator. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott passed on at 56 years of age on 23 January 1943 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf: “A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” -Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf was born as Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. She became a novelist, an essayist, a publisher, and a critic. Her notable works include, “To the Lighthouse” (1927), “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925), “Orlando” (1928), and the book-length essay, “A Room of One’s Own” (1929). Adeline Virginia ‘Virginia’ Woolf passed on at 59 years of age on 28 March 1941 in River Ouse (near Lewes), Sussex, England.
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“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was born Frank Lincoln Wright on 8 June 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States of America. He became an architect, an interior designer, a writer, and an educator. Among his more than 1,000 structural designs and 532 completed works are “Fallingwater” and the Usonian home concept. Frank Lloyd Wright passed on at 91 years of age on 9 April 1959.
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“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.” -William Wrigley, Junior
“When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” -William Wrigley, Junior
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“Great men with great truths have seldom had much support from their associates.” -Philip Wylie
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