Top 45 Whoso Quotes
#1. Part Five: The Single Hound
XVIII
THERE is another Loneliness
That many die without,
Not want or friend occasions it,
Or circumstances or lot.
But nature sometimes, sometimes thought, 5
And whoso it befall
Is richer than could be divulged
By mortal numeral.
Emily Dickinson
#2. For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Thomas More
#3. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
John Locke
#4. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Beth Wiseman
#5. Cling not to one mood,
And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong.
For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him,
That he alone can speak or think alright,
Such oracles are empty breath when tried.
The wisest man will let himself be swayed
By other's wisdom and relax in time.
Sophocles
#6. Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#7. For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.
Jan Hus
#8. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#9. He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
#11. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Hesiod
#12. Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
#16. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Anonymous
#17. Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
Lydia M. Child
#18. And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.
Quentin L. Cook
#20. He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
Walter Raleigh
#21. Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
William Batchelder Greene
#22. Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#23. There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#24. Truth is one;
And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#25. Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
Walter Raleigh
#26. Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
Walter Raleigh
#27. Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.
John Bunyan
#28. 25. The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
Anonymous
#29. Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Thomas Malory
#30. It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
Sigrid Undset
#32. Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.
Shri Purohit Swami
#33. In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
Thomas Huxley
#34. He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
#35. Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
John Vance Cheney
#37. Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
John Milton
#38. Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
Aleister Crowley
#39. But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. Whoso laments, that we must doff this garb
Of frail mortality, thenceforth to live
Immortally above, he hath not seen
The sweet refreshing, of that heav'nly shower.
Dante Alighieri
#41. Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.
Martin Luther
#44. For their love
Llies in their purses, and whoso empties them
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
William Shakespeare
#45. Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.
Max Stirner
