- U -
- We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel de Unamuno
- V -
- Don't say anything good about yourself, people won't believe you; don't say anything bad about yourself, people will do it as soon as you're gone.
Julien de Valckenaere
- Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.
Paul Valéry
- If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in the Wall Street Journal.
Abigail Van Buren
- If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
- If you can distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don't need advice.
Van Roy's Second Law
- Use, do not abuse. Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
- Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire
- W -
- Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol
- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
- Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.
George Washington
- I've always followed my father's advice: He told me, first, to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddam sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
John Wayne
- Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
- Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
- The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
- The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), from The Picture of Dorian Gray
- My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy
the ice cream while it's on your plate..
Thornton Wilder
- You can't be too rich or too thin.
Wallis Wilson, Dutchess of Windsor
- Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
- If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
- Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when hiking through snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
- If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you
must find things in yourself, for a life without faith in something is
too narrow a place to live.
George E. Woodberry
- Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Henry Wotton
- Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
Frank Loyd Wright
- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
Steven Wright
- y -
- If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny Youngman
- Z -
- On should forgive one's enemies, and then destroy them as friends.
Rastko Zakic
- Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmerman
- Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmerman
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