Thursday, April 14, 2011

quotes about education and success

quotes about education and success





quotes about education and success quotes about education and success quotes about education and success



quotes about education and success quotes about education and success quotes about education and success







If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp



He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Americans like fat books and thin women. ~Russell Baker



A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible



I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout... ~Paul O'Neil



A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out. The egg mutters to no one in particular, "I guess we answered that question." ~Author Unknown



Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts



The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale



When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul. ~Michelle Delio



The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Breast milk is better than any udder milk! ~Author Unknown



Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forster



Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins



Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ~Israel Zangwill Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. ~Charles Kingsley



Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope



The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~Stephen Sondheim



Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb



There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground," 1864



We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~George Bush



There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ~Charles Caleb Colton

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