Whither
To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?
To what or which place; -- used relatively.
To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical.
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Whither Quotations
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
Max Planck
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
Kenneth Grahame
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
Robert Bridges
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
Arthur Hugh Clough
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
David Starr Jordan
Whither Translations
whither in German is wohin
whither in Hungarian is amerre, merre, ahova, hova
whither in Latin is quo
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