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successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Charles Caleb Colton
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon
good-luck luck firsts
Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage. David Sedaris
good-luck fool classic
Oh, I am fortune's fool! William Shakespeare
good-luck hard-work littles
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. Ed Bradley
good-luck cards rare-occasion
I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions! Bear Grylls
good-luck luck bad-luck
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad. Bertolt Brecht
good-luck creative bigots
Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head. Aasif Mandvi
good-luck dancing people
There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism. Cherie Lunghi
good-luck agreement people
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire
good-luck lucky rockets
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. Bill Watterson
lucky-day lucky danger
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody. Abraham Polonsky
lucky-day oil risk
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems. Carl Safina