Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
About This Quote

In horseshoes and hand-grenades nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. If you have a good start, but a bad finish, you have still been nearly' successful. This is a common saying from William Shakespeare, who was a famous playwright and poet. This quote may also come from the writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote a similar saying: “Nearly' all that we have to hope for here,

Source: The Graveyard Book

Some Similar Quotes
  1. No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became... - Pablo
  2. Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. - Roy T. Bennett
  3. But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism. - Eric Wright
  4. Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail... - Jess C. Scott
  5. I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison
More Quotes By Neil Gaiman
  1. Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
  2. I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
  3. Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build...
  4. In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
  5. I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love...
Related Topics