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"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." »Helen Hunt Jackson
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle augmentations. Diligence and moderation are the best steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there is any other other way." »Feltham
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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"Be the first to the field and the last to the couch." »Chinese Proverb
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"The computing field is always in need of new cliches." »Alan Perlis
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"The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Radar." »Jerry Coleman
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." »Winston Churchill
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"Children speak in the field what they hear in the house." »Scottish Proverb
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"Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." »Ovid
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"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." »Wilfred A. Peterson
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"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." »Ovid
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"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." »Warren Beatty
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"The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." »Wilfred A. Peterson
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"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared." »P. J. Plauger
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"Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field." »John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
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"Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out." »Sybil Adelman
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"My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer." »General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
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"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." »Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." »Cicero
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"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun." »Elmer Davis
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"When I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread out over a soccer field so that the kids can kick my ash." »Tom Zegan
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"Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none." »I Ching
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"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." »Ted Williams
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"The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside." »Jerry Coleman
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." »Sloan Wilson
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