Charles Portis Quotes

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

If victory has a hundred fathers, it also brings forth a hundred advisors.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

The costs of failure are infinitely greater than the price of victory.

Victory was never in doubt. Only the cost was.

Tis better to sit there and look the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

The fool learns by suffering.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.