Sometimes the best gain is to lose

Quote by George Herbert

Topics: Winning Quotes

The offender never pardons.

The offender never pardons.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout

You must lose a fly to catch a trout

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

The eyes have one language everywhere

The eyes have one language everywhere

The best mirror is an old friend.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Living well is the best revenge.

Living well is the best revenge.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.