Quote by George Brett

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing

Summary

This quote uses humor to explain the level of dissatisfaction and disappointment that comes with losing. It suggests that losing is even worse than a tie (which is often seen as unsatisfactory) by comparing it to an even less pleasant experience. The imagery of kissing one's grandmother with her teeth out adds an element of exaggeration and discomfort, emphasizing the extreme feeling of defeat that losing can evoke.

By George Brett

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're sayi

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the S

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Herman Melville

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphor

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one perso

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable myst

We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above...

Robert J. Morgan

Inspirational Christianity Christian Living

The meaning of life is that it stops.

The meaning of life is that it stops.