Quotes of Use - somelinesforyou

“ Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch. ”

- Mary Kay Ash

“ My heart is ever at your service. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ”

- Confucius

“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised. ”

- Countess Diane

“ The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.". ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith… Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's. ”

- Martin H. Fisher

“ Service is no heritage. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ There is a good reason they cal these ceremonies 'commencement exercises' Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. ”

- Alan Lakein

“ Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use. ”

- George Swinnock

“ Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ”

- Chanakya

“ We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. ”

- Thad Cochran

“ Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ”

- Titus Livius

“ O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ”

- Bertolt Brecht
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