Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
John Henry Newman
Check all other quotes by John Henry Newman
Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.
Embed:Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.
Citation
Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:
MLA Style Citation
"John Henry Newman Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Tue. 31 Dec. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Stuffing-birds-or-playing-stringed-instruments-is-739340>.
Check out
Other quotes of John Henry Newman
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
Other quotes you may like
You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.
The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.