Success and Failure

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

René Char, in Success and Failure

No pressure, no diamonds.

Mary Case, in Success and Failure

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

Damien Cannon, in Success and Failure

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell, in Success and Failure

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Kehlog Albran, in Success and Failure

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.

Fred Allen, in Success and Failure

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen, in Success and Failure

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.

Wallace Arnold, in Success and Failure

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt, in Success and Failure

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!

Murray Banks, in Success and Failure

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.

Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

Alan James Bean, in Success and Failure

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Leo Burnett, in Success and Failure