| Author |
Quotes |
| Ambrose Philips | Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. |
| Christopher Anstey | O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. |
| Cicero | There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. |
| Sean O Casey | The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. |
| Sydney Smith | One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts. |
| Vergil | Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. |
| William Butler Yeats | I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead. |
| William Ramsay | The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. |
| Woodrow Wilson | No student knows his subject, the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | These studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age, they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity, they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad, they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. |
| Francis Bacon | Histories make men wise, poets, witty, the mathematics, subtile, natural philosophy, deep, morals, grave, logic and rhetoric, able to contend. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. |
| John Milton | Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. |
| Joseph Addison | Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. |
| John Gay
| Studious of elegance and ease. |
| John Gay
| For he as studious--of his ease. |
| Philip James Bailey | When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. |
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