The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that... →
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost... →
Charles Mackay
Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you've given it, don't concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and... →
Harvey Mackay
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
Agnes Macphail
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster.... →
John Madden
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but... →
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with... →
Melvin Maddocks
I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like... →
Rachel Maddow
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.
Greg Maddux