success
n. An unpardonable sin against one's neighbors.
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n. Attendance plus luck.
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Cynical Quotations
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.
— Franklin P. Jones
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
— Henry Kissinger
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
— Christopher Lasch
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
— Voltaire
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Since government rarely succeeds, it hardly ever fails.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving.
— Victor O'Reilly
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
— Joseph Heller
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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
— Kin Hubbard
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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
— John Blake
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If at first don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
— Bill Lyon
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
— Nancy Astor
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
— Jean Giraudoux
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
— Mark Twain
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
— Jean Cocteau
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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