Quotes about Courses
From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
— Judges 5:20
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
— JRR Tolkien
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
— Thomas Merton
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
But the having such an opinion of themselves seems to have a deteriorating effect on the character: because in all cases men's aims are regulated by their supposed desert, and thus these men, under a notion of their own want of desert, stand aloof from honourable actions and courses, and similarly from external goods.
— Aristotle
AMBIGU (A'MBIGU) n.s.[French.]An entertainment, consisting not of regular courses, but of a medley of dishes set on together. When straiten'd in your time, and servants few,You'd richly then compose an ambigu;Where first and second course, and your desert,All in our single table have their part.King'sArt of Cookery.
— Samuel Johnson
No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.
— Myles Munroe