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Periander

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Chuck Reid

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is.

Lawrence Peter Berra

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Cecil J. Sharpe

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Vince Lombardi

Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Democritus

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Maya Angelou

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Confucius

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Saadi

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Steven Wright

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Tallulah Bankhead

Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once.

Jerry Seinfeld

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Sir Walter Scott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Sir Walter Scott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Chinese Proverb

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.

Matthew Henry

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

George Orwell

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Aristotle

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Otto von Bismark

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

Prince Otto

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Saint Jerome

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'

Helen Rowland

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Heywood Hale Broun

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Steven Wright

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

Sydney Harris

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Siddha Nagarjuna

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Mark Rutherford

It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not.

Charles Franklin Kettering

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Plato

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Confucius

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Elias Canetti

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Bertrand Russell

It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'

Socrates

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Aldo Leopold

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl

Jack You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch are you

Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Henry Bessemer

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Lewis Carroll

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Dave Barry

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

Francis Bacon

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Lao Tzu

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Aldous Huxley

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

John M. Eades

There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.

David Havard

Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace. We all desire to have more joy in our Christian life. The keys to experiencing joy are available to all of us. We need to understand the gospel of the grace of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. Then as we put Paul's instructions into practice, we will come to know God experientially. This will cause us to know Him better which will cause us to want to obey more, and on and on it goes. Then as we learn and obey God and become focused on spiritual things instead of earthly things, we will become thankful for everything that God has provided for us in Christ. Knowledge, obedience, and thankfulness will then lead to abundant joy in our everyday life In the words of the old hymn Trust and obey, For there's no other way, To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Practice yourself what you preach.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Practice, the master of all things.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

OBLIGATO -- being forced to practice the piano.

'Why don't you stay here and practice screaming?' -- Crow

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Practice safe government, use kingdoms.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Avoid sexually transmitted disease; practice monotony.

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

"Oh, you call 3 hours of batting practice `relaxing'?" - Garibaldi

"Magic Johnson did not practice safe sex, and we made him a hero."

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

"Don't worry. I practice safe science." -- Beakman

"Why don't you stay here and practice screaming." -- Crow T. Robot

"Make heavy demands on your men in practice." -Rommel

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

"We've got Mr. B Natural practice that day..." -- Joel Robinson