No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess and no matter how good one's sentiments may be if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I want to state upfront unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

That God cannot lie is no advantage to your argument because it is no proof that priests can not or that the Bible does not.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read easier to understand and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Do you know it's funny but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated if capital and population increased more food would be required and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

Global trade has advantages. For starters it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary although it has often been made has never proved widely persuasive.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives advantage to the danger.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives advantage to the danger.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very very uncomfortable because it conveys an advantage over people and I don't like that.

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family but they're also building an image and identity for themselves which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

By concentrating on what is good in people by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice and by asking them to put their faith in the future socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

The more you are getting older you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage because of your long experience you can use it.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty and that such equality may best and perhaps only be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford and her own mother was a doctor.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage if that's what it is that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry in great plainness of living in exact modesty of dress.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter even where geniuses are equal.