The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
“A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.”
Variant: A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Girls are beautiful, let's face it, and life is quite, quite worthless without them.”
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 106
“I have to admit that I drive past Bridgwater quite regularly. And fast.”
Usenet
“Oh, I am not quite sleeping.
Oh, I am fast in bed.”
Lyrics, Illinois (2005)
“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.”
"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed", The Century, Vol. 31, No. 2, December 1885 http://books.google.com/books?id=-1UiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA193. Anthologized in The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=1T00Sc_cVYIC (1898)
“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“[.. but he had] a record with the music of the dwarfes on it, and quite often play it.”
short quotes, from post-cards to his brother Carel, from London autumn, 1938; as quoted in 'Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years', Thomasine, Sweden; The Guardian International https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/25/artist-piet-mondrian-london-years
Mondrian's short quotes are referring to the Disney animation-movie 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), which he visited early 1938 with his brother Carel. His brother he named in the postcards "Sneezy".
1930's
“Literary taste is often confounded with literary talent by others, quite as much as by ourselves.”
The Monthly Magazine
