Ascham Quotes & Sayings

And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. — Kahlil Gibran

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. — Roger Ascham

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. — Confucius

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience. — Roger Ascham

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world. — Roger Ascham

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
Four ways in court to win man's grace. — Roger Ascham

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room. — Roger Ascham

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good. — Jay Carney

Allow the resurrected Christ to allocate your time as His own ... and have complete right-of-way throughout your being. — Billy Graham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. — Roger Ascham

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. — Roger Ascham

Intelligent people are those who work with or hire a person who is more intelligent than they are. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. — Roger Ascham

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. — Roger Ascham

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? — Thomas Hardy

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. — Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. — Roger Ascham

Music is the language of the heart without words. — Shinichi Suzuki

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. — Roger Ascham

I snorted. 'For a great sultan who is lord and ruler of all that he surveys, his English is lamentably poor. He can't even spell England properly.'
Still holding the note, Mr Ascham looked up at me. 'Is that so? Tell me, Bess, do you speak his language? Any Arabic or Turkish-Arabic?'
'You know that I do not.'
'Then however lamentable his English may be, he still speaks your language while you cannot speak his. To me, this gives him a considerable advantage over you. Always pause before you criticise, and never unduly criticise one who has made an effort at something you yourself have not even attempted. — Matthew Reilly

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In so many ways, Ascham thought, she was beyond her years - but in the presence of her father she became a little girl again. So confident and assured in private, now she moved with the stilted awkwardness of every twelve-year-old girl. Ascham's heart went out to her. — Matthew Reilly

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. — Roger Ascham

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language. — Roger Ascham

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward

I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices. — Claire Danes

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law. — Jean-Louis Gassee

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. — Roger Ascham

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse. — Roger Ascham

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had
yea, and that among very wise men
to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. — Roger Ascham

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing. — Roger Ascham

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. — Stephen Cambone

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. — Roger Ascham

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. — Roger Ascham

I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they understood or not. That was just the kind of parents they were. — Bill Konigsberg

Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof ... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion. — Roger Ascham

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family. — Avi Arad

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. — Roger Ascham

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham

Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked. — Alison Weir

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall. — Roger Ascham