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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
dog wings drunk
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. Charles Dickens
dog children wife
I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.
dog wall heart
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.
dog animal should
You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.
dog cat animal
Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.
dog attitude philosophy
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
dog house puppets
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet ... Charles Stross
dog thinking sheep
I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.
dog children fate
The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us. Alan Moore
cat animal humanity
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
cat men light
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
cat swings rooms
There wasn't room to swing a cat there.
cat boots milk
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. Charles Stuart Calverley
cat violin scraping
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. Alan Watts
cat animal names
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. Alan Ayckbourn
catholic too-much belief
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private. Alan Alda
catholic doe shapes
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
cat herding-cats democrat
Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats. Al Sharpton