quotes about homework

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. ~Richard Steele, Spectator



The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten



That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. ~Robert T. Pirsig



A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels



The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis



Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. ~Barack Obama, Announcement for President, 2007 Feb 10, Springfield, Illinois



Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. ~Lucretius, On the Nature of Things



These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~Sam Snead



I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore



No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard



If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, � Flavia.com



The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby



Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~Esa Tikkannen, 1979



The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913



Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" ~Jack Handey



There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. ~Elton John



Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes. ~Roger Angell



Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran



I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill



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.)