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| The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The world is a gambling table so arranged that all who enter the casino must play and all must lose more or less heavily in the long run, though they win occasionally by the way | | Samuel Butler | |
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| The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. | | George Eliot | |
| The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind | | E. B. White | |
| The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything | | Clarence Darrow | |
| The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. | | Helen Keller | |
| The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything | | Albert Einstein | |
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| The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
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| The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks | | Helen Keller | |
