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We've found 49 quotes for 'mechanical advantage' (0.105 seconds):



"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional." »Oscar Wilde 
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." »P. J. O'Rourke 
"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world." »Reginald Blyth 
"Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield." »Quintilian 
"Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them." »Solon 
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals." »G. C. Lichtenberg 
"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good." »Baltasar Gracian 
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." »Sir Thomas Browne 
"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage." »Albert Camus 
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France 
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." »Thomas Jefferson 
"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue." »Demosthenes 
"Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius 
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." »Henry Adams 
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places." »Samuel Butler 
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little." »Joe Martin 
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little." »Porterfield 
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion." »Demosthenes 
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." »Russell Green 
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." »Friedrich Nietzsche 
"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one." »Robert Brault 
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage." »Benjamin Disraeli 
"Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them." »Clarence Birdseye 
"People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." »John Kenneth Galbraith 
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on." »Samuel Goldwyn 
"There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." »John Updike 
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." »Aeschylus 
"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." »Ellen Metcalf 
"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care." »F Scott 
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