education quotes

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~H.L. Mencken


I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ~Quentin Crisp


Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda


Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. ~Vladimir Nabokov


People always think something's all true. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye


I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. ~Mrs. Robert A. Taft


Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown


There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ~Robert Half


He who does not economize will have to agonize. ~Confucius


When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ~Lois McMaster Bujold


Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare," Intimate Journals, 1864


A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin


You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ~Faith Baldwin


Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~Roger Kahn


If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ~Author Unknown


You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843


All the windows of my heart I open to the day. ~John Greenleaf Whittier


I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern