William Dwight Whitney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

  • Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

  • I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  • All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

  • In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

  • It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

  • Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

  • We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

  • When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

  • Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.