inspirational education quotes

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ~John Dennis, 1781



Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown



It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. ~Paddy Chayevsky



The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine



I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ~Robert Bosch



Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ~Samuel Butler



I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. ~Joanne Sherman



Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop



As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. ~Eric Sevareid



There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.



There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the Bible"



To know the hight sic of a mountain, one must climb it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson



Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey



How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield



People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. ~Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance



Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Tartuffe



A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings



Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. ~Sam Walton Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire