Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
– Duke
More Entries
- If an artist can manage his career, well, that is half the battle to becoming successful. – Martin Dansky
- Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. – John Erskine
- Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. – Samuel Smiles
- It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. – Norman Schwarzkopf
- Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. – Edmond
- Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. – Italo Calvino
- A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington
- A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington
- I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means. – Duke Kahanamoku
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens