“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 439
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 439
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound
Variant: ... but Dimitri... well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.
"Stay back," he ordered me. "They aren't laying a hand on you.
Source: Spirit Bound
“Always a playground instructor, never a Killer”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
An American Prayer (1978)
“Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!”
Hilary McKay book Saffy's Angel
Source: Saffy's Angel
“[Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
“Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.”
Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times
p 48
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.”
Ernest Bramah book Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
The Story of Lin Ho and the Treasure of Fang-Tso
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928)
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Source: Sen. Chris Coons and Caitlin Flanagan, Natural Immunity, (2021)