Sunday, June 28, 2020 – Winners and Losers
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. ~ Darrin Weinberg
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ~ Winston Churchill
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~ Oscar Wilde
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ~ George Orwell
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck. ~ Allan Sherman
Losing feels worse than winning feels good. ~ Vin Scully
I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. ~ Alex Trebek
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. ~ Alfred Hitchcock
I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
The problem with winning the rat race is you’re still a rat. ~ Lily Tomlin
There’s always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. ~ Vaclav Havel
Don’t believe that winning is really everything. It’s more important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, what do you win? ~ Lane Kirkland
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. ~ Anita Brookner
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. ~ John Thorn
Hope is the raw material of losers. ~ Fernando Flores
In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners. ~ Mason Cooley
There are days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers. ~ Robert Orben
Without losers, where would the winners be? ~ Casey Stengel
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. ~ Tom Wilson
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ~ Al McGuire
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. ~ Sun-Tzu, The Art of War, Strategic Assessments
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It’s authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. ~ Thomas Frank
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ~ Will Rogers
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. ~ John Madden
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ~ Abraham Lincoln
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. ~ Richard M. Nixon
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. ~ Les Brown
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ~ Lord Acton
It is only losers that are prosecuted. ~ George Galloway
What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He’s a loser. That’s why he’s number two. ~ Jarod Kintz
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. ~ John Lennon
It’s easy to win. Anybody can win. ~ Philip K. Dick
There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It’s incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person’s life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take; there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It’s maddening. ~ Ashly Lorenzana
All losers are romantics. It’s what keeps us from blowing our brains out. ~ Richard Kadrey
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed. ~ Christopher Hitchens
Everyone is a loser. Winners are just losers with more patience. ~ George Hammond
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ~ Elisabeth Bishop
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. ~ Bill Bradley
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ~ Samuel Butler
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The first proof of a person’s incapacity to achieve is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others. ~ B. R. Hayden
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ~ Anais Nin
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose. ~ Charles Bukowski
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. ~ William Graham Sumner
I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. ~ Aldous Huxley
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation. ~ Rose Kennedy
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight. ~ Marcus Aurelius
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. ~ Bill Lyon
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy. ~ Scott Alexander
Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ~ Margaret Mitchell
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. ~ Barbara Cartland
If you’re old and you lose, they say you’re outmoded. If you’re young and you lose, they say you’re green. So don’t lose. ~ Terry Brennan
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~ Ludwig Borne
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. ~ Bertolt Brecht
If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope. ~ Max Gunther
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. ~ Queen Victoria
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~ Michael de Montaigne
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, May 3, 1919
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. ~ William Saroyan
We are all failures. At least, the best of us are. ~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego. ~ Susan Falter-Barns
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. ~ Robert Frost
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time. ~ Bobby Layne
If you learn from a loss you have not lost. ~ Austin O’Malley
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ~ Arthur Calwell
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
Where’s the pleasure in bein’ the winner if the loser ain’t alive to know they’ve lost? ~ Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. ~ George Armstrong Custer
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