Twice Quotes
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If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte

We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus

Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor

More than any other in Western Europe,
Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think
twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
- Joseph Lelyveld

If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him.
Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- Harold MacMillan

The sky is the limit.
You never have the same experience twice.
- Frank McCourt

I would think twice about designing stuff for which
there was no need and which didn't endure.
- Robin Day

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
- Samuel Goldwyn

I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice.
Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts,
but I never noticed.
- B. B. King

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in
love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
- Josh Billings

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
- Plato

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I caught on fire twice on the stage,
but I was promptly put out.
It was just my leg.
- Tre Cool

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.
- Ryne Sandberg

Most families had four, five brothers.
But because it was just me and Darryl,
we had to be twice as strong.
- Barry White

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily,
some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.
- Martin Chemnitz

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times,
without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
- Gavrilo Princip

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me.
But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
- Billy Mays

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
- Oksana Baiul

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle,
so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
- Raymond Chandler

I dainty little lass I wasn't.
I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
- Maureen O'Hara

I don't look at a knife the way I used to.
I'm more aware of what it is.
I think twice.
This is a key finger.
It's in every chord.
- Neil Young

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head!
Twice!
- Craig Bruce

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

It is not once nor twice but times without number that
the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- Aristotle

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
- Fannie Hurst

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
- Will Rogers

We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year.
I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.
- Dixie Dean

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of
Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
- Ryan White

Don't be afraid to make a mistake.
But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
- Akio Morita

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
- Jean de La Fontaine

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice -
in giving a failure another chance.
- James Cash Penney

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
- Baltasar Gracian

Try a thing you haven't done three times.
Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it.
And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
- Virgil Thomson

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
- Dick Cavett

Save your money.
You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- Michael Caine

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week.
By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
- Lila Acheson Wallace

I never want to do the same things twice.
I like surprises.
- Audrey Tautou

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life,
and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
- John Hawkes

We constantly run lines together before every show too,
and then there's a long, traditionally long,
story to tell the audience every show.
Today, we're doing it twice.
- Bill Irwin

No man pays double or twice for the same thing,
forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
- William Petty

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
- Gloria Estefan

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson,
so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
- Tim Burton

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice,
I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
- Robert Quine

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue,
in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
- Charles Caleb Colton

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
- Ozzy Osbourne

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature
tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
- Tom Hayden

Bath twice a day to be really clean,
once a day to be passably clean,
once a week to avoid being a public menace.
- Anthony Burgess

Elvis and I continued to be friends,
and I saw him once or twice a year.
But he was a troubled person.
- Ursula Andress

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
- Lord Acton

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast.
The Sultan claimed the liver, which,
when dried and powdered,
is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
- Isabella Bird

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who
has no plan for possible defeat.
- Louis L'Amour

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning,
Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
- Taylor Hackford

I still put my pants on the same way.
I still walk on my pool twice a day.
- Jim Caviezel

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning,
had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
- Lee Trevino

I always record far more than I can use.
There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
- Van Morrison

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious...
knocked out cold before...
and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.
- Jim Lampley

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice
when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.
- Whitey Ford

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance;
its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
- Catherine Drinker Bowen

If it was just me and Elvis one on one,
which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him,
it was a really comfortable.
He was a cool guy.
Easy laugh, nice guy.
- Mac Davis

I disagree with a lot of those changes,
however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit
graduation at least once or twice a year.
- R. Lee Ermey

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do,
and no one can explain why women are affected most
often from the waist down.
- Annette Funicello

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- Tom Stoppard

I thought, while they're up and firm,
why not shoot them once or twice.
- Jamie Lee Curtis

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
- Paul Newman