Searching for 'why' quotes
| God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. |
| by Samuel Butler |
| You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? |
| by Benjamin Franklin |
| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. |
| by John Harrington |
| Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. |
| by Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal. |
| by Compton MacKenzie |
| I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. |
| by Gamaliel Bailey |
| I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. |
| by Bernard Mannes Baruch |
| If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. |
| by Horace Mann |
| Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever; Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? |
| by Julia Crawford |
| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. |
| by E.M. Forster |
| Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. |
| by John Stevenson |
| Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede. |
| by Charles Swain |
| Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
| by Erica Jong |
| Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses. |
| by Friedrich Nietzsche |
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