Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

Ho Chi Minh

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Heyneke Meyer

I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.

Hesiod

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Henry Rollins

I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.

Hayden Fry

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

Hideki Matsui

My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly, it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

Henry James

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Words are the wings of actions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Hansie Cronje

I always played to win.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Harlan Coben

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

Gustavo Kuerten

Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again.

Gustave Flaubert

Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

Gustave Flaubert

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

Grantland Rice

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

John Marston

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

John Maynard Smith

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

John McAfee

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

John Madden

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

John Lone

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.