One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Chance Quotes, Winning Quotes

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit...

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit...

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able...

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able...

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton...

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton...

The more we do, the more we can do.

The more we do, the more we can do.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence...

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of...

The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of...

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the...

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of...

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of...

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they...

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...