education quotes by famous people

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~Terri Guillemets



It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ~Raymond Chandler



Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ~Hannah Arendt



Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz



An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884



History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan



This is what the Republicans are calling a Wizard of Oz ticket. You see, Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain. ~Jay Leno



Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley



The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth



Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins



I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ~Jules Verne



Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. ~Ugo Betti



May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams



The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach



In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster. ~Author Unknown



I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ~Louis D. Brandeis



Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Author Unknown



It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com