Gain Quotes

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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Gain Battle Winning You Fight

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Money Science Morality Integrity Greed Honesty Academia Lies Gain Scholars Treason Artists Honour Falsification Selling Out

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they ha

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare

Desires Greed Excess Gain Possessions Entitlement Insatiability

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental convicti

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Loss Gain

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

William Shakespeare

Greed Destruction Fleeting Possession Gain