The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to… — J. E. B. Stuart Copy Share Image
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage. — Ellen Hollman Copy Share Image
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt Copy Share Image
The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong. — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties… — John Constable Copy Share Image
There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages.… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I'm sure that the book is incrediable, phenomenal and so on and so on going in positive direction... But the film wasn't… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.” — M. Beddow Bayly Copy Share Image
Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
I understand the disadvantages that the world has decided that I have, as a woman and as a minority. — Myha'la Copy Share Image
I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it. — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
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