Quotes About Advantage

Ledge Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is not just no advantage but ridiculous, mashed vertical against the wall. You will have seen the way a bird who falls on skimpy places lifts into the air again in seconds -- a gift denied the rest of us when our portion isn't generous.

What advantage does it bring a man to be so tall? For every high-dangling pear I reached there's been an arrow threatened me would have flown over a smaller man!

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged." She

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's.

I never trust anyone who proclaims his morality from the pulpit. That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises. He's not likely to change his mind about that.

She put the point to her father, as they hung around the court, waiting for their case to come up. He said: "I never trust anyone who proclaims his morality from the pulpit. That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises. He's not likely to change his mind about that.

Pero entonces siempre hay una excusa para que la élite tenga sus privilegios especiales.

Ne t'en fais pas. Les scrupules sont bons pour les privilégiés. Pour nous qui sommes nés pauvres, notre seul salut est dans la ruse. Elle n'aimait pas entendre son frère parler ainsi et affirmer que leur enfance difficile excusait tout, ce qu'il faisait parfois.

Un avantaj nu era util dac? nu era folosit.

To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

God is a rich and bountiful Father and He does not forget His children nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

In those holy fieldsOver whose acres walk'd those blessed feetWhich fourteen hundred years ago were nail'dFor our advantage on the bitter cross.