Plutarch Quotes

What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Lose
  • Never Forget

• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Lose

• Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Prove
  • Encouragement

• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
  • Three

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Want
  • Lose

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Lose

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Prove
  • Pictures

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Feel

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
  • Present
  • Lose
  • Behavior

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  

  Doris Day
  • Age
  • Decay
  • Middle Age

• Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Just
  • Stock
  • Trade

• She didn't want me to miss two days considering the players that we have out and how banged up we are now. Typical baseball mom, she's taking it for the team.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Team
  • Days
  • Miss

• If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

  

  David Cameron
  • People
  • Time

• To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

  

  Stephen Rodrick
  • Ego
  • Empire
  • Megalomania

• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  

  Plutarch
  • Lose
  • Prove
  • Decay