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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but
what we do.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Gotham (bk. II, l. 88)
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Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
Author: John Philips
Source: Cider (bk. I, l. 126)
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
[Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Asinaria (I, 3, 65)
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Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
And is enough for both.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at II, i)
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This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii)
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No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i)
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An evil gain equals a loss.
[Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu
sit.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Heauton timoroumenos (I, 2)
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As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no
pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this
arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and
happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
- George Washington,
Author: George Washington
Source: in Congress on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Source: None
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Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Author: George Herbert
Source: None
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
Author: Francis Beaumont
Source: None
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And gain is gain, however small.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: None
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
Author: Latin Proverb
Source: None
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For everything you have missed you have gained something.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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