Whim may refer to:
- Whim (mining), a capstan or drum with a vertical axle used in mining
- Whim (carriage), a type of carriage
- Whim, a reissue of Adventures of Wim, a book by George Cockroft as Luke Rhinehart
- Whim, a character Jim Woodring's Frank (comics)
Famous quotes containing the word whim:
“The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“She has a whim of iron.”
—Oliver Herford (1863–1935)