success quotes for students

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett



There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas



We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld



All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Francois Fenelon



Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936



To reject the word is to reject the human search. ~Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging



Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. ~Mohandas Gandhi



Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ~Charles Wagner



I want you to remember, I intend this breast satirically. ~Coupling, "Flushed," original airdate 12 May 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Susan



Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. ~Josh Billings



Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg



I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." ~Ellen DeGeneres



Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran



To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure. ~Martin H. Fischer



That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell



Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959



I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch



The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed.... However Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. ~From Applied Optics, vol. 11, A14, 1972



An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown