[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to ho...ld the racket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as "...spectacles" to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To you illness is negligible. You have learned that you can dominate yourself. You know that your body lags, but your soul proceed...s upon its triumphant way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I... ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more kites that are up, the more string they need, and when it runs out, the bigger the loss. ...no one ever got a balloon up ...quite as high or hit bottom as hard as I did. I figure the lessons I learned were worth the money. Wounds made by these gambles soon heal, and before long the boys are back, looking at the board again. ...it's just life, and we all join in the game one way of another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cassius is aweary of the world: Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;... Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed, Set in a notebook, learned and conned by rote To cast into my teeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of ...being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »