Advantage

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

“I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
object, and that no man ever can,
Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)