Matthew Henry Quotes

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

A Jamaican Negro of unmixed stock, squat, stocky, fat and sleek, with protruding jaws, and heavy jowls, small bright pig-like eyes and rather bull-dog like face. Boastful, egotistic, tyrannical, intolerant, cunning, shifty, smooth and suave, avaricious; as adroit as a fencer in changing front, as adept as a cuttle-fish in beclouding an issue he cannot meet, prolix to the nth degree in devising new schemes to gain the money of poor ignorant Negroes; gifted at self-advertisement, without shame in self laudation, promising ever, but never fulfilling, without regard for veracity, a lover of pomp and tawdry finery and garish display, a bully with his own folk but servile in the presence of the Man, a sheer opportunist and a demagogic charlatan.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

People who can't take advantage of opportunity take advantage of people.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next; and the Slytherins will be enabled to believe what they wish, while the Gryffindors argue themselves into supporting you as well. So long as there is uncertainty, people can believe whatever seems to be to their own advantage. And so long as you appear strong, so long as you appear to be winning, their instincts will tell them that their advantage lies with you. Walk always in the shadow, and light and darkness both will follow.

Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.

There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.