SKILL

Related Subjects: Ability, Accuracy, Art, Craftsmanship, Genius, Invention, Talent

1. 'Tis God gives skill,
   But not without men's hands:
   He could not make
   Antonio Stradivari's violins
   Without Antonio.—GEORGE ELIOT, Stradivarius
   

2. Skill to do comes of doing.—EMERSON, Society and Solitude
   

3. Skill makes love unending.—OVID, Art of Love
   

4. Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.—PROPERTIUS
   

5. All things require skill but an appetite.—Proverb
   

6. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.—Proverb
   

7. Skill is stronger than strength.—Proverb
   

8. Dexterity comes by experience.—Proverb
   

9. To show our simple skill,
   That is the true beginning of our end.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
   

10. Like an arrow shot
    From a well-experienced archer hits the mark
    His eye doth level at.—SHAKESPEARE, Pericles