Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent....

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain....

W mesons, or W bosons, are heavy charged particles that mediate the weak nuclear interaction. In standard high-energy units, they have a mass of 81 GeV. There are two varieties, the W+ with charge +e, and its antiparticle, the W- , with ch...

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats. A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine. Yet...

Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living....

The African American songwriter William Christopher Handy (1873-1958), known as the father of the blues, was the first person to notate and publish blues songs. He wrote over 60 blues, spirituals, and popular tunes. On Nov. 16, 1873, W. C....

VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix. VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix....

"Every intellectual," writes Ignazio Silone, "is a revolutionary," and though this may not be generally true, in the case of W. E. B. Du Bois, the observation is both accurate and fitting. The internationally known scholar and writer, born...

1900-1993 American statistician and management consultant who developed an influential theory of management based on statistical quality control. Deming, who was trained as a physicist, became interested in management theory while working ...

That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all....

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more...

William Hutchinson Murray ( 18 March 1913 - 19 March 1996 ) was a mountain climber and Scottish author. Sourced But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were half...

Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384 [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature of his system. He taught that God, as the great feudal superior of the universe, allotted to all earthly author...

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money....

I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . . Though the latitude's rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague....

W. J. Woodhouse was an Australian historian. Sourced This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrands of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians. "The tutorial history of Greece, to 323 B.C. : from the earl...

Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back....

Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384 It has been too much the custom to regard the earliest Christian books as written in a specially Christian form of speech, standing apart and distinguishable from the common language of the east...

All Finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out it's context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the g...

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so....

SOURCE: "Allegory and Autobiography: Georges Perec's Narrative Resistance to Nostalgia," in The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 1993, pp. 201-10. In the following review of W ou Le Souvenir d'Enfance, Smith focuses on t...

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal....

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world....

In a career spanning more than sixty years, W. Somerset Maugham wrote a handful of novels which are still studied as modernist works. His ear for language, the use of actual—sometimes grim—experience transformed into fictional ...

The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to...