Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.
Jay Leno

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Wayne Gretzky

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie

It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
Jeff Foxworthy

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein