Gain

Gain is an increase in wealth, often through profit or an increase in value of an investment.

Quotes

 * And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
 * Charles Churchill, Gotham (1764), Book II, line 88.


 * Share the advice betwixt you: if both gain, all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd, And is enough for both.
 * William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act II, scene 1, line 3.


 * Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
 * William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 7, line 18.


 * No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
 * William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 1, line 39.


 * As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
 * George Washington, in Congress on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief (June 16, 1775).

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 306.


 * Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Goethe's Helena.


 * Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
 * John Philips, Cider, Book I, line 126.


 * Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quærit lucrum.
 * He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
 * Plautus, Asinaria, I, 3, 65.


 * Lucrum malum æquale dispendio.
 * An evil gain equals a loss.
 * Syrus, Maxims.


 * Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu sit.
 * From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
 * Terence, Heauton timorumenos, I, 2.