Practice is everything. [ Periander ]
Practice makes perfect. [ Proverb ]
Practice is the best master. [ Proverb ]
Men practice war; beasts do not. [ Seneca ]
Do not practice excessive humility. [ Dr. John Todd ]
Practice in time becomes second nature. [ Anon ]
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. [ Landor ]
His nice fence and his active practice. [ William Shakespeare ]
Generosity is only benevolence in practice. [ Bishop Ken ]
The whole of virtue consists in its practice. [ Cicero ]
They only babble who practice not reflection,
I shall think - and thought is silence. [ Sheridan ]
The public sense is in advance of private practice. [ Chapin ]
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. [ Proverb ]
Practice is to theory what the feet are to the head. [ E. de Girardin ]
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. [ Hazlitt ]
Knowledge, without practice, makes but half an artist. [ Proverb ]
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. [ Proverb ]
That man is learned who reduceth his learning to practice. [ Hitopadesa ]
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice. [ J. L. Motley ]
Pride will practice anything rather than let her port decline. [ Proverb ]
He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Knowledge directs practice; but yet practice increases knowledge. [ Proverb ]
With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught. [ Waller ]
Things confirmed by long practice and usage have all the force of law. [ Hooker ]
Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule. [ Locke ]
Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art. [ Aristotle ]
Ah! If the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. [ Horace Greeley ]
Virtue is so praiseworthy that wicked people practice it from self-interest. [ Vauvenargues ]
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
I am little inclined to practice on others, and as little that they should practice on me. [ Sir W. Temple ]
In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor. [ Landor ]
Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]
To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, - nature, study, and practice. [ Aristotle ]
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice. [ Mencius ]
Having the will to win is not enough. Everyone has that. What matters is having the will to prepare to win. [ Bobby Knight, The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results ]
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. [ Voltaire ]
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. [ Joubert ]
Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the truth of Christianity because they bane the practice. [ South ]
The art requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. [ Plutarch ]
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. [ Horace Mann ]
What a cruel jest it would be to condemn those who continually boast of their virtues, to the strict practice of what they profess! [ De Finod ]
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [ George Washington ]
Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. [ Scott ]
Those who are conversant with books well know how often they mislead us when we have not a living monitor at hand to assist us in comparing practice with theory. [ Junius ]
Read the best authors attentively - Bacon, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Jeremy Taylor, and of moderns, Walter Scott, Bulwer, Thackeray, Ruskin, Froude; and practice constantly. [ George Rawlinson, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice. [ James Ellis ]
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. [ E. L. Magoon ]
The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he who is destitute of the practice of virtue delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth from the forest to the lotus, whilst the frog is destitute of shelter. [ Hitopadesa ]
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and fortune. [ John Knox ]
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox, - because they meet no one to give it to them. [ Greville ]
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. [ Hazlitt ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]
Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me,
I said. I'm off the team, aren't I?
Well,
said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times.
It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]