funny quotes on education

Don't blame me. I voted with the majority. ~Author Unknown



Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown



Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion



I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ~Terri Guillemets



In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell



It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens



Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~William Ralph Inge



It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn



Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb



History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel



What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. ~Jean-Paul Aron



People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. ~Author Unknown



I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. ~Kurt Vonnegut



Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. ~Hunter Thompson



At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish. ~Thai Proverb