Thursday, April 28, 2011

famous quotes about education

famous quotes about education





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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne



From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925



I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress



If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ~Paul Gallico



My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter



The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ~Samuel Johnson



I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry



Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1



I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. ~Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes



Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. ~Bill Fitch



The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel



A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. ~B. Zander, The Art of Possibility



There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595



If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket



Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. ~Grant Wood



The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld



I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell

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