Gain: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.— CARLYLE — Essays. Goethe's Helena.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — Eastward Ho. Act I. Sc. 1.
What a world were this How unendurable its weight, if they Whom Death hath sundered did not meet again!— SOUTHEY — Inscription XVII. Epitaph.
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.— TENNYSON — Crossing the Bar. St. 4.
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.— TENNYSON — Ulysses. L. 65.
The great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Pt. LV.
Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned, and their greatness changed into an empty name?— VOLNEY — Ruins. Meditations. Ch. II.
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.— HORACE WALPOLE — Letter to Sir
Horace Mann. Nov. 24, 1774. Where now is Britain? * * * * * * Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks where stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.— HENRY KIRKE WHITE — Time.
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.— WHITTIER — Barclay of Ury.
G. And if you mean to profit, learn to please.— S. CHURCHILL — Gotham. Bk. II. L. 88.
The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.— BENJ. DISRAELI — Endymion. Ch. XCVI.
The elegant simplicity of the three per cents. LORD ELDON. See Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors. Vol. X. Ch. CCXII. P. 218. Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.— MONTGOMERY — The West Indies. Pt. III.
Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.— JOHN PHILIPS — Cider. Bk. I. L. 126.
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 7. Sc. 7. L. 18.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 39.
Share the advice betwixt you: if both gain, all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd, And is enough for both.— Shakespeare — All Well That's Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 3.
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.— GEORGE WASHINGTON — In Congress on
his Appointment as Commander-in- Chief, June 16, 1775.
Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quærit lucrum. He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.— PLAUTUS — Asinaria. I. 3. 65.
Lucrum malum æquale dispendio. An evil gain equals a loss.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere tibi quid ex usu sit. From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.— P. TERENCE — Heautontimorumencs