Famous Baltasar Gracin Quotes

  • The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard. – Baltasar Gracin

    The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.– Baltasar Gracin

  • Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. – Baltasar Gracin

    Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.– Baltasar Gracin

  • The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. – Baltasar Gracin

    The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.– Baltasar Gracin

  • Respect yourself is you would have others respect you. – Baltasar Gracin

    Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.– Baltasar Gracin

  • It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. – Baltasar Gracin

    It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.– Baltasar Gracin

  • Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. – Baltasar Gracin

    Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.– Baltasar Gracin

  • Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense – Baltasar Gracin

    Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense– Baltasar Gracin

  • For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching. – Baltasar Gracin

    For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.– Baltasar Gracin

  • Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted. – Baltasar Gracin

    Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.– Baltasar Gracin

  • We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open. – Baltasar Gracin

    We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.– Baltasar Gracin