education quotes inspirational

Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!



One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. ~Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, 1981



Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable. ~Author Unknown



Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~Jim Rohn



A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller



We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. ~John Muir



Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley



Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. ~Charles Barkley



The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus



I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. ~Bill Veeck



If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. ~Barbara L. Diamond If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison



"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne



Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890



Yeah, after each of my downhill putts. ~Homero Blancas, asked if he had any uphill putts



I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~Sigmund Freud



Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda



The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! ~Terry Moore