Advantage

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

“Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)