Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
BALTASAR GRACIáN There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTASAR GRACIáN He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN 41 Never exaggerate. It isn’t wise to use superlatives. They offend the truth and cast doubt on yo...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
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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...
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BALTASAR GRACIáN Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN We can only hope that we are wise in time
CAROLINE C These and other females of low birth have attained eminence in this world by the respective good qua...
GURU NANAK You can't deal with being odd?
...
Become like them...
Become drug delear...
DEYTH BANGER It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE They know the time to go!
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour
In field and woodland, ...
SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
JOHN MILTON Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
DAVID GARRICK The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
SAADI Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go wit...
RAYMOND E. FEIST You definitely have to watch them all the time. They're grabbing things, putting things in their mou...
ELIZABETH MARTINEZ It's a challenge to try and be flexible. Turnaround is six to nine months on most things, so most of...
GORDON KNOBLE Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence.
JOHN MILTON Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence.
JOHN MILTON Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
CHAMFORT Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY I like that. I wish I had a player on my team like that. If he's throwing 'bows, we've gotta throw '...
ERIC FERGUSON Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON Things have their forms not only in space, but also in time.
ALAN MOORE Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embed...
ALAN MOORE People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
NATHAN LANE The tie-breaker is points scored (in games involving the three teams) and we only have 53 against Em...
GLEN DRURY Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science
THOMAS CARLYLE The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
BISHOP REGINALD HEBER What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY He was the gray eminence, the person behind the scene who kept things going. Fred provided a continu...
JAMES MOORMAN Time bears away all things, even the mind.
VIRGIL Time conditions life for all things even death!
FREDERICK KENNETH RAWLINGS III Swimming with the dolphins is one of the things most people have on their lists to do at some time i...
BILLY HURLEY It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN His Eminence Cardinal John O'Connor has completed his earthly journey and has gone home to God.
JOSEPH ZWILLING I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is.
-Lily Francone
LORENA BATHEY Time put things in their place.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't hav...
DEYTH BANGER These folks have been through things we can't even describe. They need time to relax and they'll nee...
DAVE SCOTT All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their ...
DAVID PAUL KIRKPATRICK Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all...
SUSANNAH CAHALAN A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE I love bows, ... And I feel some couture pots coming on.
YVES SAINT LAURENT Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pai...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so...
FRANK MILLER People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to...
ELSA PERETTI I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, ...
KAT GRAHAM Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its tim...
JERRY SALTZ Interestingly, (Boston Scientific) only raised its bid by $1, signaling that price is but one factor...
JOANNE WUENSCH It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The combination of having a large pool of potential users to target and the timeliness of the curren...
DAN HUBBARD In great things it is enough even to have willed.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Mia bows dramatically. “Welcome, kind Sir. Princess Mia has been awaiting your presence.
K.A. TUCKER When it's time, it's time
you can never stop the time
because things always happen in their time.
AYODAPO OYELANA The misery of a nation begins at the moment when a good man bows to a felon.
DR.LIRIDON DISHA Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
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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) Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES