metamora high school

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. ~John F. Kennedy



Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings



Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. ~Erma Bombeck



We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi



Her face was her chaperone. ~Rupert Hughes



We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ~Will Rogers



No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets



As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations



The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone



To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb



When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills



The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy



Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~E.V. Lucas



But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. ~Job 12:7-8



Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~Dick Cavett



If... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. ~Catherine Aird



Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun



Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverb