Failure

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  • You add insult to injury.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
        Walter Bagehot   Best?
  • Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
        Unknown   Best?
  • A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Courage atrophies from lack of use.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Your overconfidence is your weakness.
        Luke Skywalker   Best?
  • Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see.
        Yoda   Best?
  • Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.
        Isaac Asimov   Best?
  • Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, dont put it off.
        Ellen DeGeneres   Best?
  • No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see.
        J. Michael Straczynski   Best?
  • For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become a reality.
        Louis L'Amour   Best?
  • Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.
        Jimi Hendrix   Best?
  • I don't want to be anyone but the person I am.
        Princess Margaret   Best?
  • It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.
        Corrine Dewlow   Best?
  • Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.
        Maureen Hawkins   Best?
  • I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
        Eric Edmeades   Best?
  • Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
        Garth Brooks   Best?
  • A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
        Billy Connolly   Best?
  • An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.
        Nathan Campbell   Best?
  • Let the punishment match the offense.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
        Jacob A. Riis   Best?
  • Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
        Mignon McLaughlin   Best?
  • No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?

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