"To play billiards well was a sign of…" — Herbert Spencer

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth - Herbert Spencer

"To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth"

— Herbert Spencer

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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer has 113 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

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More Billiards Quotes

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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess,… — Madeleine Albright
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never… — Mother Teresa
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere.… — Juan Manuel Fangio
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist;… — Robert Greenberg
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. — Herbert Spencer
To succeed, you must first believe you can. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope — Camille Paglia
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H. L. Mencken
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he… — Blaise Pascal
I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. — Yani Tseng
There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic… — Douglas Adams

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