#than

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#cruel #divorce #foolish #grave #her

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. ↗

— William Whipple

#distressing #done #experience #force #furnishing

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong. ↗

— Kelli White

#compromise #different #felt #had #i

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#adult #good #healthy #medicine #more

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#before #begin #experiments #granted #infinitely

I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#anything #being #camera #else #funny

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#adult life #anything #i #i can #imagine

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. ↗

— Cornel West

#got #just #opinion #rather #reflects

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#find #getting #i #imposing #judgements

I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#greatest #i #impossible #impudence #impudent