"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake……" — John Leonard
"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite."
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- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.… — Bernard Baruch
- If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules… — Vinoba Bhave
- Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce
- Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense… — Constantin Brancusi
- Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. — Yasser Arafat
- The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he… — Laozi
- Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. — Aberjhani
- A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is… — Pat Summitt
- If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not… — Marcel Proust
- In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything. — Mother Teresa
- The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are… — Rajneesh