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8435 quotesThe poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Business
Titus Maccius Plautus
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Reality
Titus Maccius Plautus
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Reputation
Pliny The Elder
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
Honor
Pliny The Elder
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Belief
Pliny The Elder
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
Life and Living
Pliny The Elder
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The ability to sign a check is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.
Company
David Plowright
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Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue.
Uncategorised
Plutarch
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Happiness
Plutarch
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Birth
Plutarch
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Ancestry
Plutarch
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Integrity
Plutarch
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Adversity
Plutarch
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Speakers and Speaking
Plutarch
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Mind
Plutarch
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Blame
Plutarch
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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
Farming and Farmers
R. Pocock
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Beauty
Edgar Allan Poe
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Coward and Cowardice
Edgar Allan Poe
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Slander
Edgar Allan Poe
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Ability
John G. Pollard
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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Critics and Criticism
Channing Pollock
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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Courage
Channing Pollock
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
Hobos
Jackson Pollock
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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
Landlords
Robert Pollok
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun