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Wilson, Sandy
1924–
1924–
1
We've got to have
We plot to have
For it's so dreary not to have
That certain thing called the Boy Friend.
We've got to have
We plot to have
For it's so dreary not to have
That certain thing called the Boy Friend.
The Boyfriend
(1954) title song
Wilson, Woodrow
1856–1924
1856–1924
1
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
on seeing D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
We have stood apart, studiously neutral.
It must be a peace without victory…Only a peace between equals can last.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
on seeing D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation
at the White House, 18 February 1915
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
speech in New York, 20 April 1915
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915
We have stood apart, studiously neutral.
speech to Congress, 7 December 1915
It must be a peace without victory…Only a peace between equals can last.
speech to US Senate, 22 January 1917
The world must be made safe for democracy.
speech to Congress, 2 April 1917
Winchilsea, Anne Finch, Lady
1661–1720
1661–1720
1
Poetry's the feverish fit,
Th' o'erflowing of unbounded wit.
Now the jonquil o'ercomes the feeble brain;
We faint beneath the aromatic pain.
My hand delights to trace unusual things,
And deviates from the known and common way;
Nor will in fading silks compose
Faintly the inimitable rose.
Poetry's the feverish fit,
Th' o'erflowing of unbounded wit.
"Enquiry after Peace" (1713) l. 42
Now the jonquil o'ercomes the feeble brain;
We faint beneath the aromatic pain.
"The Spleen" (1701)
My hand delights to trace unusual things,
And deviates from the known and common way;
Nor will in fading silks compose
Faintly the inimitable rose.
"The Spleen" (1701) l. 82
Windsor, Duchess of
(
Wallis Simpson
) 1896–1986
(
Wallis Simpson
) 1896–1986
1
You can never be too rich or too thin.
You can never be too rich or too thin.
attributed
Winkworth, Catherine
1827–78
1827–78
1
Now thank we all our God,
With heart and hands and voices.
Praise to the Lord! the Almighty, the King of creation!
Peccavi
—I have Sindh.
of Sir Charles Napier's conquest of Sindh, 1843, supposedly sent by Napier to Lord Ellenborough; "peccavi" = I have sinned
Now thank we all our God,
With heart and hands and voices.
Lyra Germanica
(1858) "Now thank we all our God" (translation of Martin Rinkart's "Nun danket alle Gott",
c.
1636)
Praise to the Lord! the Almighty, the King of creation!
title of hymn (1863); translated from the German of Joachim Neander (1650–80)
Peccavi
—I have Sindh.
of Sir Charles Napier's conquest of Sindh, 1843, supposedly sent by Napier to Lord Ellenborough; "peccavi" = I have sinned
in
Punch
18 May 1844; attributed
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