Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday. ~George Bernard Shaw I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown
Anger is one letter short of danger. ~Author Unknown
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~St. Bernard
Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. ~Dean Schlicter
When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. ~Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles. ~Sonja Henie
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart
Antanaclasis: repeating a single word but with a different meaning each time. This is a common type of pun and is often found in slogans. Example: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." ~Vince Lombardi
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. ~W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ~John Anthony Ciardi
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~Fred Couples
How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! ~J.N. Larned
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ~Ingrid Newkirk
...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Chim?ra," A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, 1852 (about Pegasus)
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~Bertrand Russell