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| A due consideration of the vanities of the world will naturally bring us to a contempt of it. L’Estrange. | 1 |
| A falling world might crush but it could not intimidate me. Petrarch. | 2 |
| All the world is not mere conduct and stratagem. | 3 |
| All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets. | 4 |
| He is the world’s master who despises it, its slave who prizes it. Italian. | 5 |
| He that will consider the world must own he has never seen a better. Dutch. | 6 |
| If all the world were ugly, deformity would be no monster. | 7 |
| If all were wise the world would come to an end. German. | 8 |
| If the whole world does not enter one-half of it will. | 9 |
| In this world men must be saved by their want of faith. Lord Halifax. | 10 |
| In this world nine-tenths of all success depends upon the time. | 11 |
In this world, the fondest and the best
Are the most troubled and distressed. Crabbe. | 12 |
| In wiving and thriving men should take counsel of all the world. | 13 |
| Let the great book of the world be your principal study. Chesterfield. | 14 |
| Of this world each man has as much as he takes. Italian. | 15 |
| One-half the world does not know how the other half lives. | 16 |
| One-half the world laughs at the other half. French, German. | 17 |
| Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. German. | 18 |
| The gown is hers who wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it. | 19 |
| The world has people of all sorts. Locke. | 20 |
The world is a bride superbly dressed,
Who weds for dowry must pay his soul. Hafiz. | 21 |
| The world is a great book of which they that never stir from home read only a page. St. Augustine. | 22 |
| The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down. | 23 |
| The world is a lottery wherein one must expect to meet with many unlucky chances. Turkish Spy. | 24 |
| The world is a net; the more we stir in it the more we are entangled. | 25 |
| The world is a wheel. Modern Greek. | 26 |
| The world is as free for a fly as for an eagle. Ben Jonson. | 27 |
| The world is governed with little brains. Italian. | 28 |
| The world is like a staircase, some go up and others go down. Italian. | 29 |
| The world is so much knave that it holds honesty to be a vice and folly. | 30 |
| The world likes to be cheated. Dutch. | 31 |
| The world likes to have night owls that it may have matter for wonder. German. | 32 |
| The world owes me a living providing I earn it. | 33 |
| The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing and pretending. Italian. | 34 |
| The world was never so dull as if one wont another will. | 35 |
| The world would perish were all men learned. | 36 |
| The world’s a stage, each plays his part and takes his share. Dutch. | 37 |
| There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world’s trade. | 38 |
| There needs a long time to know the world’s pulse. | 39 |
| This world is nothing except it tend to another. | 40 |
| ’Tis a wicked world and we make part of it. | 41 |
| When the world is inclined to favor, it overrates as much as it will underrate when it disfavors. Richardson. | 42 |
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