--- title: "8 Like Mercury Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Like Mercury quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Like Mercury sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/alexander-pope-235_excellent_learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most_157646.png" --- > [Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most-powerful-and-excellent/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/alexander-pope-235_excellent_learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most_157646.png) > [“Ini and Aevi were entranced by his description of a curriculum that included farming, cparnetry, sewage reclamation, printing, plumbing, road mending, playwriting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/ini-and-aevi-were-entranced-by-his-description-of-a-curriculum-that/) [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d8/ursula-k-le-guin-138_crime_ini-and-aevi-were-entranced-by-his-descr_459444.jpg) > [Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-guinness/memories-are-like-mercury-every-time-you-sort-of-try-to-get-near-them/) [Daphne Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-guinness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/daphne-guinness-9233_bar_memories-are-like-mercury-every-time-you_580603.jpg) > [Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-higgins-clark/happines-is-like-mercury-hard-to-hold-and-when-we-drop-it-it-shatters/) [Mary Higgins Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-higgins-clark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/mary-higgins-clark-22184_courage_happines-is-like-mercury-hard-to-hold-an_631251.jpg) > [I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-ferrara/i-m-surprised-how-hot-it-gets-in-the-moab-desert-i-knew-it-got-hot/) [Adam Ferrara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-ferrara/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f0/adam-ferrara-12745_desert_i-m-surprised-how-hot-it-gets-in-the-moa_1736035.png) > [“They poured out the lower doors and windows of the castle, howling to the skies. They evolved into a kind of cohesive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-carriger/they-poured-out-the-lower-doors-and-windows-of-the-castle-howling-to/) [Gail Carriger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-carriger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98c/gail-carriger-1051_fantasy_they-poured-out-the-lower-doors-and-wind_2114346.jpg) > [A movie like Mercury' is a once in a generation opportunity for me. It doesn't come easily to a music director and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/santhosh-narayanan/a-movie-like-mercury-is-a-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-for-me-it/) [Santhosh Narayanan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/santhosh-narayanan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/908/santhosh-narayanan-26946_cinema_a-movie-like-mercury-is-a-once-in-a-gene_2415652.jpg) > [Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elvis-costello/theres-so-many-fish-in-the-sea-that-only-rise-up-in-the-sweat-and/) [Elvis Costello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elvis-costello/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/elvis-costello-1931_fish_theres-so-many-fish-in-the-sea-that-only_2800147.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-mercury/#itemlist", "name": "Like Mercury Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexander Pope" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most-powerful-and-excellent/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/alexander-pope-235_excellent_learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most_157646.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/alexander-pope-235_excellent_learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most_157646.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/alexander-pope-235_excellent_learning-is-like-mercury-one-of-the-most_157646.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in…” — Alexander Pope", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ini and Aevi were entranced by his description of a curriculum that included farming, cparnetry, sewage reclamation, printing, plumbing, road mending, playwriting, and al the other occupations of the adult community, and by his admission that nobody was ever punished for anything. “Though sometimes,” he said, “they make you go away by yourself for a while.” “But what,” Oiie said abruptly, as if the question, long kept back, burst from him under pressure, “what keeps people in order? Why don’t they rob and murder each other?” “Nobody owns anything to rob. If you want things you take them from the depository,. As for violence, well, I don’t know, Oiie; would you mruder me, ordinarily? And if you felt like it, would a law against it stop you? Coercsion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.” “All right, but how do you et peopled to do the dirty work?” “What dirty work?” asked Oiie’s wife, not following. “Garbage collecting, grave digging,” Oiie said. Sheik added, “Mercury mining,” and nearly said, “Shit processing,” but recollected the Ioti taboo on scatological words. He had reflected, quite early in his stay on Urras, that the Urasti lived among mountains of excrement, but never mentioned shit. “Well, we all do them. But nobody has to do them for very long, unless he likes the work. One day in each decade the community management committee or the block committee or whoever needs you can ask you to join in such work; they make rotating lists. 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