Billiards Quote by Herbert Spencer Download Open image “To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth” — Herbert Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billiards Gambling Ill Play Wells Youth
“A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
I used to be very lazy in my teens. I didn't practise enough but I was OK when I started really getting into snooker. — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
At a youth soccer game you'll probably hear parents and coaches on the sidelines yelling, 'Pass the ball! Pass the ball!' ... When we… — Tony DiCicco Copy Share Image
I realized at a very young age that I had a gift to do special things with the ball. — Jay-Jay Okocha Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for… — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
“A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell… — Red Tash Copy Share Image
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the… — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
