(991 quotes found)
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”
Andre Agassi
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation”
Charles Darwin
“He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”
Zoroaster
“History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.”
Walter Bagehot
“For everything you have missed you have gained something”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
Charles Lamb
“For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something”
“We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.”
Jeff Cooper
“They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!”
Yasmine Bleeth
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”
William Shakespeare
