quotations about advantages
A clever man can turn bad luck to his advantage, but a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man consists? And what if it so happens that a man's advantage, sometimes, not only may, but even must, consist in his desiring in certain cases what is harmful to himself and not advantageous. And if so, if there can be such a case, the whole principle falls into dust. What do you think--are there such cases? You laugh; laugh away, gentlemen, but only answer me: have man's advantages been reckoned up with perfect certainty?
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Notes from Underground
I'm a sentimental sap that's all
What's the use of trying not to fall
I have no will, you made your kill
'Cause you took advantage of me
ELLA FITZGERALD
"You Took Advantage of Me"
In war it is lawful to take any advantage of the enemy.
JULIUS CAESAR
attributed, Day's Collacon