Quote by Phyllis McGinley

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterd

Summary

This quote suggests that success can often be fleeting and short-lived. It implies that once something has been accomplished or a cause has been won, it loses its power and relevance in the present. The quote presents a rather pessimistic view that suggests past achievements are ultimately meaningless and that they hold no significance in the current context. It implies that success can lead to complacency and a feeling of defeat, as it becomes outdated and overshadowed by new challenges and circumstances.

Topics

By Phyllis McGinley

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he w

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scr

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Writing Advice Inspirational Motivating

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And w

Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He'll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.

Dorothy Parker, from Incurable

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans,

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, a

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its na

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. All social questions achieve their finality around that blade. The scaffold is an image. It is not merely a framework, a machine, a lifeless mechanism of wood, iron, and rope. It is as though it were a being having its own dark purpose, as though the framework saw, the machine listened, and the mechanism understood; as though that arrangement of wood and iron and rope expressed a will. In the hideous picture which its presence evokes it seems to be most terribly a part of what it does. It is the executioner's accomplice; it consumes, devouring flesh and drinking blood. It is a kind of monster created by the judge and the craftsman; a spectre seeming to live an awful life born of the death it deals.

Death France Execution Executioner Scaffold

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

Strength Courage Animals Man Inspirational Authority Nobility Boldness Lion Conquering Beast Courage In Life Fierceness

All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way t

All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achie

Men Success Happiness