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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.


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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
BALTASAR GRACIAN Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose.
LANCE CONRAD Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
ITALIAN PROVERB Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ...
STEVE VERNON Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
ROBIN WILLIAMS He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
BOISTE A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gai...
ARTHUR FORMAN I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
BALTASAR GRACIáN There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTASAR GRACIáN He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Audacious persons hope to make themselves eternally famous by setting fire to one of the wonders of ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
BALTASAR GRACIáN When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not o...
BALTASAR GRACIáN 41 Never exaggerate. It isn’t wise to use superlatives. They offend the truth and cast doubt on yo...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that doe...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.
BALTASAR GRACIáN The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of h...
BALTASAR GRACIáN A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important a...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they ca...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offend...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Be first the master of yourself
BALTASAR GRACIáN For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
BALTASAR GRACIáN One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIáN They have nothing to lose. It's scary to play a team that has nothing to lose.
DANNY IRMEN A man who calls the police has nothing to hide.
LOU FREEMAN Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
ROBIN WILLIAMS A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Demonstrating hostility to a man who hold this or that post has nothing to do with promoting democra...
ALEXANDER SURIKOV Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a mod...
WILL C. BARNES He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
JOHN LYLY I'd rather be in a relationship with GOD,than a man who has sacrificed nothing for me
PATTY MEDINA A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk for...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it
OSCAR WILDE A loser has nothing to lose but everything to win.
WOHI PURANA The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
MENCIUS The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
OSCAR WILDE You can't lose two (if you want to contend for the Valley). Your chances wouldn't be very good.
DICK BLASY A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER Keep in touch with the people who have something to gain rather than those who have nothing to lose.
VIKRANT PARSAI I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered....
PAUL AUSTER Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON WHEN ONE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE ONE HAS EVERYTHING TO GAIN !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS The poor man, who acknowledges his limitation and knows he has nothing to give, has everything to gi...
ETC WANYANWU There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - e...
LENA HEADEY Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in m...
THOMAS FULLER Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters,
LIN YUTANG A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose.
AMY GOODMAN You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
ELAYNE BOOSLER You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot
ELAYNE BOOSLER That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thi...
FRANK KNOX You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.
BEAU BRUMMEL I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of l...
WILLIAM STAFFORD The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No man can lose what he never had.
IZAAK WALTON

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