quotes about life lessons and friends

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford



Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily Dickinson



Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender



The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. ~Kenneth Tynan



Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown



If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. ~David Sedaris



People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan People living deeply have no fear of death. ~Anaiis Nin, Diary, 1967



The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~Jules Reynard



Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." ~Ernie Kovacs



Basketball is the MTV of sports. ~Sara Levinson



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. ~Madge Micheels-Cyrus



I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990



Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ~Holly Near



Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930



I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907



When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ~Woody Allen



Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. ~Abraham Lincoln