funny quotes for exams

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954



Bad excuses are worse than none. ~Thomas Fuller



Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. ~Stephen Baker



Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown



You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes



There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists. ~Leslie Moak Murray



Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ~Jesse Jackson



Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."



A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours. ~Author Unknown



There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. ~Martial



The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. ~Alexander of Tralles



It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin



The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. ~Phil Ochs The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. ~Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8



Fame is proof that the people are gullible. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~Pope John Paul II



The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965



Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776



There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. ~John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689



Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ~Leonardo da Vinci



The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan