Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.


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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Quit while you're ahead
PROVERB
I would rather quit while I was ahead. There's no need in overstaying your welcome.
RIVER PHOENIX
You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelt...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jacket...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Know or listen to those who know.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - Th...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - T...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Yes and No are soon said, but give much to think over
BALTASAR GRACIAN
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the g...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
When desire dies, fear is born.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Time and I against any two.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case th...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly covete...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn'...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
GRACIAN BALTASAR
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She s...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The more merit, the less affection
BALTASAR GRACIAN
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The things we remember best are those better forgotten
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease s...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend
BALTASAR GRACIAN
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Time and I against any two
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
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Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
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Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to...
BALTASAR GRACIáN
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
BALTASAR GRACIáN
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...
BALTASAR GRACIáN
Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIÁN
The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the w...
JOHANN BALTASAR SCHUPPIUS (SCHUPPE)