Google

#  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier."
By Baltasar Gracian
Send to friend

Page(s)   1 2 
Home
View Authors
View Quotes
 

Random quotes

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."
By Peter McWilliams
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)
"Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people."
By Arthur McNallan
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)
"My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come."
By William H. McNeill
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)
"Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking."
By Tim McMahon
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, becaus"
By Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
By Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
By Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Send to friend | Post to mySpace/your site | Comments (0)