Education

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
- Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1894 - 1963

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
- Sydney J. Harris, 1917 - 1986

Students

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
- Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, 1938 - 1989

When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears.
- Gene Oliver

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
- George Iles

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
- Jacob Bronowski, 1908 - 1974

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
- Lao-Tzu

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1899 - 1977

Books

Blessed be the memory of those who have left their blood, their spirits, their lives, in these precious books, and have willingly wasted themselves into these enduring monuments, to give light unto others.
- Bishop Joseph Hall, 1574 - 1656

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
- Carl Lotus Becker

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
- Charles Jones

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
- James Bryce, 1838 - 1922

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
- Desiderius Erasmus, 1466 - 1536

Teachers

If kids come to us [teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
- Barbara Colorose

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
- Dan Rather

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
- Horace Mann, 1796 - 1859

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
- Maria Montessori, 1870 - 1952

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia Neal

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
- William Osler, 1848 - 1919

School

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
- Ernest Renan

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
- John Boynton Priestley, 1894 - 1984

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

What did you ask at school today?
- Richard Feynman, 1918 - 1988

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
- John W. Gardner, 1912 - 2002

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be Pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.
- Walt Kelly, 1913 - 1973

Mountains

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mount Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.
- Bruce Barcott

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
- James Ramsey Ullman

Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir, 1838 - 1914

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
- Maurice Chevalier, 1888 - 1972

Suggestions

Advice, n. The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1881 - 1906

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... “Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.”
- Jean Nathan Miller

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
- Max Beerbohm, 1872 - 1956

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
- Orson Welles, 1915 - 1985

We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.
- J. Edward Day, 1914 - 1996

Wishes

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- Aristotle, 384 - 322 BC

A Dream is woven from thin air and nothing, Embroidered with wishes and everything, Then filled with the padding of hope and delight.
- James W. King

Happy is the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
- Guy Albert Lombardo, 1902 - 1977

Dorothy Parker

Four be the things I'd have been better without:
love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

I wish I could drink like a lady,
I'd have one or two at the most.

Three and I'm under the table,
Four and I'm under the host.
- All from Dorothy Parker, 1893 - 1967

About:
Dorothy Rothschild was born at West End, New Jersey on 22 Aug in 1893. She didn't enjoy life, and made a reputation for bitter commentary of great style and wit as Dorothy Parker. For most of her life, her work was welcomed by the public and editors, although she was fired at Vanity Fair for her harsh criticism of Broadway productions. In addition to Vanity Fair, she wrote for Vogue, the New Yorker, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire, and wrote all or parts of two dozen screenplays. Despite being one of the most quoted writers in America, she struggled with alcohol and depression, and attempted suicide four times. But she left us a wealth of great quotes.

Tall

One pill makes you larger
and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
when she's ten feet tall.
- Grace Slick, White Rabbit, 1967

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims
- Harriet Woods

To expect to rule others by assuming a loud tone is like thinking oneself tall by putting on high heels.
- John Petit-Senn, 1792 - 1870

It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.
- Kelly Marshall

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
- William Penn, 1644 - 1694

Love thy neighbor; and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
- Mae West, 1892 - 1980

Ogden Nash

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
- All from Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971

About:
The American poet Frederick Ogden Nash was at Rye, New York on 19 Aug in 1902. After family finances prevented him from finishing even a year at Harvard, he struggled as a school teacher (a class of 14-year-olds caused too much stress), bond broker (he sold but one bond in 18 months, and that to his godmother), advertising copywriter, children's book author (The Cricket of Carador sold only 900 copies), but finally thrived as an editor at Doubleday. He dashed off some very silly poetry to relieve office boredom, his boss suggested he send a few to the New Yorker where he was first published in 1930. He never was able to sell his more serious poetry, which forced him to write over 1500 pieces that amused us, and a little prose to quote.

More:
http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash1.htm
http://www.westegg.com/nash/

Mae West

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

You're never too old to become younger.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Saving love doesn't bring any interest.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I can always tell a lady when I see one.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

When a girl goes bad--men go right after her.

Don't ever make the same mistake twice, unless it pays.

Don't keep a man guessing too long--he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
- All from Mae West, 1892 - 1980

More: http://www.kithrup.com/~ariyana/maewest.html


About:

Mary Jane West was born at Brooklyn, New York on 17 Aug. The date we know, but the year is a mystery since after assuming her stage name, Mae West claimed or was reported to have been born in 1888, 1892, 1893, and 1900. (1892 and 1893 are the most credible.) No matter her real age, she was certainly quotable!

Gold

That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which, therefore, the true value cannot be assigned.
- Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those that wander are lost.
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828 - 1910

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
- Maurice Setter

Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.
- Simonides of Ceos, ca 556 - 469 BC

Linda Ellerbee

When there is good news, and it is news, we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

We call them twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they've read the news - or if they've blown dried their brains, too.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

- All from Linda Ellerbee

About:

Linda Jane Smith was born at Bryan, Texas on 15 Aug 1944 and grew up in Houston. After graduating from Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee she held a number of visible correspondent and anchor jobs at NBC using her married name: Linda Ellerbee. A year at ABC brought her the first of her four Emmys. She now heads her own production company where, along with a number of documentary projects, she has produced "Nick News" for children on Nickelodeon. Despite a raft of prestigious awards she has remained an insightful critic of the news business and of some of the stars that populate that firmament.