education quotes by famous people

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Source Unknown



If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. ~Richard Preston



To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon



He who excuses himself accuses himself. ~Gabriel Meurier, Tresor des sentences



The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate



I think the world really boils down to two types of people - those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds. ~Terri Guillemets



Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. ~Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951



Instead of counting your days, make your days count. ~Author Unknown



I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~Shirley MacLaine



If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. ~Author Unknown



When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart. ~Author Unknown



A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. ~J. Pierpoint Morgan



Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. ~Robert A. Heinlein



I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies



Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown



With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. ~Kingman Brewster, Jr.



If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. ~Will Rogers



All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ~Benjamin Franklin



Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas