Gain Quotes
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And if you mean to profit, learn to please. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages. A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross; I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Don't look back; they may be gaining on you. (Quote by - Satchel Paige)
This is like deja vu all over again. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It?s the age-old struggle?the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again. (Quote by - Matthew J. Clayfield)
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Not even the gods fight against necessity. (Quote by - Simonides)
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask! (Quote by - W Clement Stone)
I saw this as an opportunity to visit India and to gain experience umpiring in a major competition (Quote by - Jeff Evans)
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. (Quote by - Aristotle)
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a dam fool about it. (Quote by - W.C. Fields)
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. (Quote by - Socrates)
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. (Quote by - George Washington)
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work. (Quote by - GK Chesterton)
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. (Quote by - Jack Handey)
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. (Quote by - Margaret Cho)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. (Quote by - Plautus)
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge. (Quote by - Bill Frisell)
The way to gain a friend is to be one (Quote by - Jules Michelet)
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. (Quote by - James Madison)
Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?' (Quote by - Nachman of Bratslav)
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. (Quote by - Euripides)
For everything you have missed you have gained something. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. (Quote by - Epicurus)
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. (Quote by - Andre Agassi)
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd, And is enough for both. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away. (Quote by - Jay Gould)
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
An evil gain equals a loss. (Quote by - Syrus)
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. (Quote by - Hasidic Saying)
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. (Quote by - Terence)
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. (Quote by - Erwin Rommel)
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. (Quote by - John Philips)
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont)
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion (Quote by - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)
And gain is gain, however small. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Lost time is never found again. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. (Quote by - William F. Buckley)
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
