Advantage

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

“In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.”
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)

“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)

“The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)