education quotes by famous people

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. ~John 8:32



The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving



Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. ~Jacques Seguela



The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ~John Allan Dalrymple Anderson



Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. ~Jamie Luner



Translated: rendered from another language and therefore not the original words.



There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ~Henry Van Dyke



There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette



If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968 If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner? ~As seen on a shirt at veganstore.com



You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Author Unknown



He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy



Life is too short for traffic. ~Dan Bellack



Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes



Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene ("'Yes, yes, YES!' moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture"). ~Dave Barry



The blossom time of souls. ~Katherine Lee Bates



No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy. ~John Alfred Landford



Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ~Donald Trump



If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum



No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ~Thomas Robert Dewar