Double Standard Quotes

Double or nothing down the last hole?

Greg Norman

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Tom Watson

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Swedish Proverb

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Swedish Proverb

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double

German Proverb

Bond has just been surprised by the double agent, Grant. Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something.

Bond

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Mark Twain

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble

Moliere

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.

Ben Jonson

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau

Justifying a fault doubles it.

French Proverb

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Swedish Proverb

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.

Unknown

Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.

Ida Scott Taylor