To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
- Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
- I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
- Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
- Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Best Quotes
- Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Money for me today does not really matter.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
- Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.