Quotes
Quotes about Gain
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
If fortune turns against you even jelly will break your tooth.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less.
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes.
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.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
