candy poems for teachers

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002



The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. ~Author Unknown



I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ~Rebecca West



Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (*) (Thank you, Frank Lynch.)



Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



Learning without thought is labor lost. ~Confucius



The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens



A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon



I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? ~John Lennon



The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell



History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past. ~Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie



The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ~Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958



Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910



You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. ~Edward Flaherty



The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~Mohammed



I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. ~Kyle, "Death," original airdate 17 September 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



The poor are poor because the rich are rich. ~Author Unknown



I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen



If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ~Phil Jackson



Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. ~Colossians 4:6