“What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”
Quote of Diaz, c. 1830-34; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 139
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§ 3.12
Bodhicaryavatara, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (11 April 1940), quoted in Famous Lines : A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations (1997) by Robert Andrews. p. 330
1940s
“Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it.”
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 133
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.
Dover 2005, p. 236
The Ego and Its Own (1845)
The Fly, st. 1–3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
letter from Sir Thomas Buxton to his son quoted in "Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton" from Sylvanus Urban (ed.) The Gentleman's Magazine" July to December 1848, p. 577
1800s
“My neighbor's poverty makes me feel poor; my own does not.”
La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.
Voces (1943)