abilities quotes

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinion and uncommon abilities.

-Walter Bagehot
Biographical Studies,'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'.

L'homme n'est ni bon ni me  chant, il na|"t avec des instincts et des aptitudes. Manisneithergoodnorevil; heisbornwith instinctsand abilities.

- Honore   de Balzac
  La Come  die humaine, foreword.

They're killing the game with this phoney mystiquetelling people that a guy needs the abilities of a brain surgeon to play left-guard for the Colts. Football is simply a game to keep the coalminers off the streets.

-Jimmy Breslin
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).