To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Luck Quotes, Sports Quotes, Virtue Quotes

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original...

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original...

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will...

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will...

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...