We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Clough Arthur Hugh 1819-1861
‚The Latest Decalogue'
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it.
Delano Anthony
She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
Eliot George 1819-1880
It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage I' this world.
Macaulay Dame Rose 1889-1958
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further.If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Potter Stephen 1900-1969
Lifemanship
Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Sonnet 64
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the Kingdom of the shore.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Wodehouse P.G. 1881-1975
The Man Upstairs
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Bottomley Horatio 1860-1933
(Speech at the Oxford Union)
Gentlemen: I have not had your advantages.
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Schiller Friedrich von 1759-1805
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.