Sunday, November 21, 2010

Quotes Ability Part 3

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
Marquis De Vauvenargues

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
Booker T. Washington

"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
Sir William Temple

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
Charles Caleb Colton

"The king is the man who can."
Thomas Carlyle

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."
Desiderius Erasmus

"Ability is sexless."
Christabel Pankhurst

"The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
Henry Ford

"The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker."
Earl Pitts

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