Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Scholars, Scholarship
Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge Category: Scholars, Scholarship
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius Category: Scholars, Scholarship
There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson Category: Scholars, Scholarship
Too much of a good thing is still too much. – L.D.C., The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, 1938 Category: Clutter
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. – Edgar A. Shoaff Category: Leisure
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler Category: Seasons
