Logo
Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your le

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
fitness
Author
Lord Chesterfield
Read Quote

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Futility
Author
Lord Chesterfield
Read Quote

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Vanity
Author
Lord Chesterfield
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Learning
category

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language. – Henry Longhurst

Category:
Learning

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldnt be condemned for leaving. – Ezra Miller

Category:
Learning

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. – Robert A. Heinlein

Category:
Learning

If I dont need the money, I dont work. Im going to spend time with my family and friends, and Im going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else. – James Spader

Category:
Learning

Random Quotes

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. – Rosie Perez

Category:
positive

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Hmmm

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn. – Elle Lothlorien [Post-publication paraphrase. Original: “I was told to just be m

Category:
Unicorns

Whats right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them. – Henry Ford

Category:
great