Whose Quotes

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. '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.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

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

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.