Top 100 Whom It Quotes
#1. Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the soul abandons Him to whom it ought to cleave as its end, and becomes a kind of end to itself.
Augustine Of Hippo
#2. She took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.
George Eliot
#3. Kindness - that is, the ability to bear the vulnerability of others, and therefore of oneself - has become a sign of weakness (except of course among saintly people, in whom it is a sign of their exceptionality).
Adam Phillips
#4. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others
Karl Popper
#5. I love you, but I should poorly serve the work to which I devote myself anew at the side of one to whom it were less than the greatest thing in the world!
Edmond Rostand
#6. The person to whom I am carrying a plate of food is someone whom it is an honor to serve. For he has been invited to eat and drink at the table of a King.
Elisabeth Elliot
#7. The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
Augustus William Hare
#8. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Augustine Of Hippo
#10. Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate.
Marlon James
#11. If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences ...
James Madison
#12. My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
George Akerlof
#13. War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
Livy
#14. There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about.
Anton Chekhov
#15. I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain ... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.
Kate Winslet
#16. No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
#17. A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.
Sally Magnusson
#18. What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
William Blake
#19. The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. Cummings
#20. There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
Samuel Smiles
#21. And to no one is this state more attractive than to those whom it is consistently denied.
Amitav Ghosh
#22. I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
William Benton Clulow
#25. Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.
Henry Fairlie
#26. A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Thomas De Quincey
#27. Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.
C.I. Scofield
#28. If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
Martin Luther
#29. Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
Francine Rivers
#30. Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#31. A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.
Eula Biss
#32. Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
Edith Wharton
#33. A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.
Jesse Browner
#35. The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
Stefan Zweig
#36. Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar.
Edmond Rostand
#37. It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Erich Fromm
#38. Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
Samuel Johnson
#39. What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!
Henry David Thoreau
#40. A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
Karl Kraus
#41. For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Elizabeth Of The Trinity
#42. No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether - a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.
Eric Metaxas
#43. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.
Richard Sheridan
#44. no matter how objectionable the character of a paper may be, it is always a trifle better than the patrons on whom it relies for its support.
Edward L. Bernays
#45. These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
Terry Pratchett
#46. He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
[He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
George Herbert
#47. I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster
#48. Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
Max Heindel
#49. It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
#50. ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
Ambrose Bierce
#51. But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.
Rosamond Lehmann
#52. The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
Timothy Noah
#53. When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.
Nostradamus
#54. But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love?"
"There are people with whom it is not easy to live, but whom it is impossible to leave.
Thomas Mann
#55. My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'
Mickey Rooney
#56. And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
Owen Glendower
#57. The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.
Arsene Houssaye
#58. It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#59. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it" - when you have it with you.
Crossway
#60. I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.
Peter S. Beagle
#61. Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
Henri Bergson
#62. She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.
Ayn Rand
#63. I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects
Napoleon Hill
#64. There are exes with whom it is too dangerous to allow even a moment's eye contact. These are not exes at all, and never will be, and that's the problem.
Josh Wagner
#65. To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt Vonnegut
#66. To Whom It May Concern. A racist Irishman has just made me aware that I am as bigoted as he is. Please excuse me from working with people of different skin colours until I can achieve an attitude adjustment. I do not wish to be a Nazi.
Lynn Viehl
#67. Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Elbert Hubbard
#68. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
#69. Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
Thomas Paine
#70. Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
B.C. Forbes
#71. As James Madison explained, the Constitution is of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed ... THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.
Jill Lepore
#72. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.
Marie De Gournay
#73. Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.
T.F. Hodge
#74. [Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.
Edward Gibbon
#75. I was sent by God to torment / myself, my family, everyone / whom it's a sin to torment.
Boris Pasternak
#76. To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked.
Blaise Pascal
#77. I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.
John Dewey
#79. X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
Evan Esar
#81. While observing some people with their dogs, it is often a question of who is training whom. It is not uncommon to see an owner with their arms extended, holding on for dear life, while their dog runs wild. Unfortunately, I was becoming one of those owners.
Elizabeth Parker
#82. This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
Augustine Of Hippo
#83. Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
Simone Weil
#84. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.
Francis Atterbury
#85. The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.
Peter Kreeft
#86. Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
Bernard-Joseph Saurin
#87. Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
Howard Zinn
#89. The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.
Mary Webb
#90. Generosity always intends to enhance the true wellbeing of those to whom it gives.
J.A. Perez
#91. Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
Carolyn Hart
#92. There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
Linus Torvalds
#93. I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
Angelina Grimke
#95. A hearing heart loves to whom it listens.
Doug Melvin
#96. The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension
who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.
Dale Pendell
#97. A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.
Alexander Hamilton
#98. A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
Ada Leverson
#99. Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.
Richard Whately
#100. In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal
