#only

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#doing #honorable #making #making mistakes #mistakes

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beautiful #because #complete #emotion #emotions

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#only #out #person #plan #rational

The only people who never fail are those who never try. ↗

— Ilka Chase

#never #only #people #those #try

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure. ↗

— Hernando Cortez

#gold #heart #know #only #sickness

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. ↗

— Stephen Douglas

#every #every man #man #must #neutrals

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea. ↗

— Mark Strong

#armour #because #blows #could #cup

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#clients #his #hitler #level #only

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#claim #how #i #make #many