Defeat Is An Orphan Quotes & Sayings

So dumb to say, I won't while doing it. — M.F. Moonzajer

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961] — John F. Kennedy

The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all? — Bernie Sanders

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh. — David Ogden Stiers

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love. — Pope Francis

See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!"
"Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either! — Rachel Caine

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy

Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered. — Seanan McGuire

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore De Balzac

Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. — Anonymous

Think of the moment you count
most foul in your life;
conjure it,
supplicate,
pray to it;
your face is bleak, you retract,
you dare not remember it. — Hilda Doolittle

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature. — Adolf Hitler