Famous quotes containing the word gaining:
“So we see
That all things change, one nation gaining strength
While others perish.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Some people fear gaining fame the way pigs fear gaining weight.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)