Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Worst to Zoning
best of times, it was the w. of times, 1818
to be feared, 403
Anything w. doing is w. 10%, 2073
for making it [life] w. having, 2011
no Man w. having is true to his wife, 2009
no such miserable interrogatory as “What is all this w.?,” 1855
[not] a feather’s weight of w.— / Without a woman in it, 2012
of a state … is the w. of the individuals composing it, 1760
of an end is to make an ideal, 869
patriotic feeling which thinks nothing w. a war, 1934
a thousand hasty counsels, 937
area, 1986
who spends himself in a w. cause, 10
let me no more be seen in the w. forum, 376
ricketty and scrofulous little w., 554
corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and w., 1648
Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favors, 1103
refuse of your teeming shore, 1770
consigned to a State of W., 1627
not for w., 1091
all the books in the British Museum, 2076
a better book, 1780
Every man wants to w. a book, 456
original w., 2075
duty is to write about these things, 1145
Fine w. should split hairs together, 2079
See also Book; Books
general was doing more for victory by w. a poem, 1589 memorable things should be committed to w., 1173
blame him when he does w., 1507
cannot right every w., 1735
forever on the throne, 1838
from hastiness and lack of thought, 2092
If anything can go w., it will, 1232
If the end brings me out w., 110
If the law is w., 303
in his facts, 1262
judgment on w. conduct, 934
legal w. than by violent w., 909
morally w., 1640
My country, right or w., 345, 1641
neat, plausible, and w., 1736
never find an Englishman in the w., 535
never get me to support a measure which I believe to be w., 1638
one idea,—and that was w., 872
our country, right or w., 346, 1641
part with him when he goes w., 1639
put your enemy in the w., 520
right to be w., 1642
safer to be w., 1563
single w. to humanity, 958
single w. to justice and to right, 958
To right the unrightable w., 459
to right w., 1901
tolerate what we know to be w., 1746
war, at the w. place, at the w. time, and with the w. enemy, 1967
way to do something, 1232
When things go w., as they sometimes will, 1358
when w. to be put right, 1641
those who are not w., 211
those who are w., 211
in relation to w., 780
right the w. of many, 1695
not limit our views to … a single y., 1367
may wrinkle the skin, 2099
new life to those y., 22
of ninety-two and a hundred and two, 24
These are the y., 2088
tide of y. may roll, 1812
Every Y. a Dream of Happiness, 1106
is but a Dream, 1106
more than y., 1130
things went on as usual, 1678
without the y. of any party on me, 262
as y. as your faith, 2099
as y. as your hope, 2099
as y. as your self-confidence, 2099
educating the y. generation along the right lines, 488
faults to which the y. are ever prone, 2092
leading the y., 2087
man may go out of bounds, 2092
man not yet, 1163
man who does not have what it takes, 1189
men and women learn to believe in themselves, 2096
men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, 2087
men are fitter to invent, than to judge, 2084
men die in battle for their country’s sake, 694
men think old men are fools, 607
message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Y. England, 2089
natural for y. men to be vehement, 2094
old men know y. men are fools, 607
old people not to fear the y., 19
people of America, 2096
prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your y. men, 2086
to be y. and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous, 2090
To y. men jointly … I devise and bequeath all boisterous, 192
wars are the glory and the agony of the y., 1920
make way for y. men, 1569
to go wrong from hastiness and lack of thought, 2092
energy and devotion of our Y., 2090
enthusiasm which characterizes y., 676
forgives itself nothing, 2098
if y. hasn’t enough force or fervor, 157
I’m y., I’m joy, 2085
In my y., I, too, entertained some illusions, 1401
in our y. our hearts were touched with fire, 2091
is a wonderful thing, 2097
is not a time of life, 2095, 2099
never forget that they possess a noble inheritance, 63
no more y. / To perish before its prime, 2083
of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity, 2090
rely on y., 2095
search of the y. today, 1613
should be radical, 157
that must fight and die, 1923
vehemence of y., 2092
which is forgiven everything, 2098
who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war, 1923
wooed and won by y., 2088
vim and vigor, 157
callow ill-tutored y., 2089
fervency of my Z., 1626
half the z. I serv’d my king, 705
insidious encroachment by men of z., 1048
persecutes Christianity with a z., 1653
[Puritanism] gave him [Milton] z., 1574
in the cause of America, 1620
one asking what you can do for your country, 766
boards, 541