Unskillfully Quotes & Sayings

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him. — Yoshida Kenko

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country. — Noah Webster

Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly — Francis Bacon

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. — Robert Crumb

To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan