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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. Mumford, Lewis
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. Beecher, Harriet Ward
Well done is better than well said. Franklin, Benjamin
Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. Bryant, William Cullen
Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard. Shakespeare, William
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Franklin, Benjamin
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do and crosswise to our purposes? For love to bridge these opposites through joy it must not eliminate or deny them.—Even self-love presupposes an irreconcilable duality (or multiplicity) in a single person. Nietzsche, Frederick
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Goethe, Johann Von
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. Ovid
