A Quote by Voltaire

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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Lawsuit Lost Never Once Ruined Twice

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

John Adams

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

John Milton

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

Patrick Rothfuss

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

John Masefield

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Ian Fleming

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

James Nicoll

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

Peter Mayle

I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame.

Joshua

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

John Steinbeck

With sex my wife thinks twice before she turns me down. Yeah, once in the morning and once at night.

Rodney Dangerfield

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

Michael Bisping

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Tom Holt

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