Quotes
Quotes about Gain
The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.
He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The best I had, a princess wrought it me-- And I did never ask it you again; And with my hand at midnight held your head, And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time, Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'
Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.
If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm. So hallowed and so gracious is that time.
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -Christina Baldwin.
