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There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Change
- Intelligence
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West1893–1980
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
Mae West1893–1980
To err is human⁠—but it feels divine.
Mae West1893–1980
Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.
Rebecca West1892–1983A Train of Powder
There are two ways of spreading light⁠—to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton1862–1937“Vesalius in Zante (1564)”, in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton1862–1937A Backward Glance (1934), “A First Word”
- Change
I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White1899–1985
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. White1899–1985Here is New York (1949)
- Luck
I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
- Age
- Luck
I sing the body electric
Walt Whitman1819–1892I Sing the Body Electric (1855)In context
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892My Psalm, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919Often credited to Abraham Lincoln
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919“Will,” included in Maurine: And Other Poems, p. 145 (1882)
- Luck
- Motivation & Goals
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III