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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Worst to Zoning |
| Worst best of times, it was the w. of times, 1818 to be feared, 403 |
| Worth, 2071–2073 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 |
| Worthless area, 1986 |
| Worthy who spends himself in a w. cause, 10 |
| Wrangling let me no more be seen in the w. forum, 376 |
| Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723), 458 |
| Wretch ricketty and scrofulous little w., 554 |
| Wretched 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 |
| Wretchedness consigned to a State of W., 1627 not for w., 1091 |
| Wright, Orville (1871–1948), 65 |
| Wright, Wilbur (1867–1912), 65 |
| Write all the books in the British Museum, 2076 a better book, 1780 Every man wants to w. a book, 456 |
| Writer original w., 2075 |
| Writer’s duty is to write about these things, 1145 |
| Writers Fine w. should split hairs together, 2079 |
| Writers and writing, 2074–2082 See also Book; Books |
| Writing general was doing more for victory by w. a poem, 1589 memorable things should be committed to w., 1173 |
| Wrong 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 |
| Wrongdoers, 211 |
| Wronged those who are not w., 211 those who are w., 211 |
| Wrong-headedness, 1231 |
| Wrongs in relation to w., 780 right the w. of many, 1695 |
| Yazoo City, 295 |
| Year not limit our views to … a single y., 1367 |
| Years 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 |
| Yesterday Every Y. a Dream of Happiness, 1106 is but a Dream, 1106 more than y., 1130 things went on as usual, 1678 |
| Yoke without the y. of any party on me, 262 |
| Young 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 |
| Younger make way for y. men, 1569 |
| Youngster to go wrong from hastiness and lack of thought, 2092 |
| Youth, 2083–2100 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 |
| Youthful vim and vigor, 157 |
| Youths callow ill-tutored y., 2089 |
| Zeal 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 |
| Zealous in the cause of America, 1620 one asking what you can do for your country, 766 |
| Zoning boards, 541 |
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