Whoever flatters betrays. [ Massillon ]

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

Whoever excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes. [ Swift ]

Whoever is not too wise, is wise. [ Martial ]

Truth will bear
Neither rude handling, nor unfair
Evasion of its wards, and mocks
Whoever would falsely enter there. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Whoever perseveres will be crowned. [ Herder ]

Whoever is suspicious incites treason. [ Voltaire ]

Whoever is right, the persecutor must be wrong. [ William Penn ]

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it. [ Thomas Nelson, Latin Proverb ]

O melancholy, whoever yet could sound thy bottom? [ William Shakespeare ]

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. [ Congreve ]

Whoever has learned to love, has learned to be silent. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. [ Emerson ]

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. [ Voltaire ]

Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. [ Bacon ]

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. [ Herder ]

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy. [ George Sand ]

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. [ Schiller ]

Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature. [ William Hewitt ]

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. [ Cicero ]

Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things. [ La Fontaine ]

Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]

Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

There are opinions which come from the heart, and whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. [ Joubert ]

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. [ Chesterfield ]

Voltaire inscribed on a statue of Love: Whoever thou art, behold thy master! He rules thee, or has ruled thee, or will rule thee!

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? [ Montaigne ]

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. [ Horace Mann ]

Paradise is open to all kind hearts. God welcomes whoever has dried tears, either under the crown of the martyrs, or under wreaths of flowers. [ Beranger ]

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]

Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. [ Locke ]

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. [ Johnson ]

In love, the importance lies in the beginning. The world knows well that whoever takes one step will take more: it is important, then, to take the first step well. [ Fontanelle ]

Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic. [ Carlyle ]

Someone once observed, and the observation did him credit, whoever he was, that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. [ Albert Smith ]

Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]