Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard M. Nixon

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
Richard M. Nixon

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Jeff Foxworthy

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.
Jeff Foxworthy

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus.
Robin Williams

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
Brett Favre

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
Payne Stewart

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen