quotes about education and success

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill



Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking. ~Author Unknown



Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Some people never have anything except ideals. ~E.W. Howe



Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg



God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown



The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky. ~Astrid Alauda, "Office With No Windows"



Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. ~Merle Kessler



We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society



There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



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It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. ~Groucho Marx



Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? ~Socrates



Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown



Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window. ~Grey Livingston



Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel



Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971



There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. ~Author Unknown



Kids spell love T-I-M-E. ~John Crudele