bill gates quotes on education

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret



The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. ~Thomas Carlyle



History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com



The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch



I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism," 1924



To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader



Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~Horace



Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard



You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter



Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~Woody Allen



Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916



No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986



God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ~Timaeus of Locris



Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. ~Lyndon B. Johnson



It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. ~Charles Dudley Warner



We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established. ~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888



The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. ~Author Unknown