education quotes by famous people

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds



Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L. Doctorow



We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us. ~Cary T. Grayson



A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~Clifton Paul Fadiman



Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore



Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb



There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ~F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms



Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox



You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet



Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy



A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown



Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid



Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ~Author Unknown



My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex. ~Alicia Silverstone



A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. ~Allan Beck



The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck



Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960



We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711



Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet



The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne