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

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but...

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but...

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

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.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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...

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at,...

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at,...

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon...

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon...

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to...

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to...

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.