"That's the reason they're called lessons, " the Gryphon remarked, "because they lesson from day to day."

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Unknown

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn."

-- T H. White, The Once and Future King, Unknown

...After all, all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations.

-- H.L. Mencken on Shakespeare, Unknown , Unknown

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

-- Zeno of Elia, Unknown , Unknown

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage --and contribute to--the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

-- Roby James, Commencement, p. 189, Unknown

...the very notion of time management is a misnomer. For we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves in relation to time. We cannot control how much time we have; we can only control how we use it. We cannot choose whether to spend it, but only how.

-- Alec Mackenzie., The Time Trap. American Management Association., 1990

...this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-- Mary Pickford, Unknown , Unknown

A degree of chaos is essential to discover what we don't know we're looking for.

-- George ?, theater designer, Box Conspiracy play., Unknown , Unknown

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is like a savings account. The more you put into it, the richer you are.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

A half truth is a whole lie.

-- Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

-- Morimer Zuckerman, USNews & World Report, 1998, January 12

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a terrible thing to ugg.. I forgot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

-- Terry Carr, Unknown , Unknown

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A place for everything and everything in its place.

-- Mrs. Beeton, 1836-1865, The Book of Household Management, 1861

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

-- Duke Ellington, Unknown , Unknown

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

-- Annie Dillard, Unknown , Unknown

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper, Unknown , Unknown

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

-- Kurt Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

A university floats on paper and rewards the creation of more words on paper.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A vision without action is but a dream; action without vision is a waste of time; but vision with action can change our lives.

-- M. Ignacio Tinajero, 1995 Texas Teacher of the Year, Unknown , Unknown

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

-- George Patton, Unknown , Unknown

Advice should be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

-- Evelyn Underhill, Unknown , Unknown

All generalizations are false.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All things are difficult before they are easy.

-- Thomas Fuller, Unknown , Unknown

All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.

-- Edith Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

All through his education, the only time he wasn't late for school was when he was absent.

-- Gene Perret, Unknown , Unknown

All your hard work will soon pay off.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

-- Lena Horne, in interview, 1985

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Americans are always looking for a magic bullet.

-- William Castelli, M.D., Unknown , Unknown

An educated person is one who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

-- Albert Camus, Unknown , Unknown

Anybody can do any amount of work, so long as it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , Unknown

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they are yours.

-- Richard Bach, Unknown , Unknown

Aristotle noted that it was a mark of understanding to know what sorts of things can be proven and made precise, and what sorts, on the other hand, require our tolerance of vagueness and probable conclusions.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

-- Adelle Davis., Unknown , Unknown

As I think back and look forward, I see how nothing is unambiguous; nothing is without risk. Salvation does not come through simplicities.

-- A. Bartlett Giam[m]ati, Unknown , 1986

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

-- Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

Ask why until you understand.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

-- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Unknown

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

-- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Unknown

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

-- Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory, 1984

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

-- Adolph Monod, Unknown , Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

-- Adolph Monod, Unknown , Unknown

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

-- Stephen V. Benet, Unknown , Unknown

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

-- Thoreau, Walden, Unknown

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they are written.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Answered, for Lord William Hamilton", 1758

But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

-- Euripedes, Unknown , Unknown

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown

Coasting only takes you downhill.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

-- William Shakespeare, MacBeth I, III, Unknown

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

-- Henry Ford, Unknown , Unknown

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

-- John Billings, Unknown , 1818-1885

Context is always as relevant as concept.

-- Terry Olson, Focus on Faculty, Vol 15(2), Brigham Young University Faculty Center, 2005

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

-- Ambrose Redmoon, Unknown , Unknown

Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you are.

-- Joan L. Curcio, Unknown , Unknown

Crawling still gets you there.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

-- Cecil B. DeMille, Unknown , Unknown

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

-- Lillian Hellman, 1905-1984, The Little Foxes, 1939

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

-- Russell Lynes, Unknown , Unknown

Deliberation is the work of many men; action, of one alone.

-- Charles de Gaulle, Unknown , Unknown

Description of a grade: An inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite material.

-- P. Dressel, p. 12 "Grades: One more tilt at the windmill." in A.W. Chickering (Ed.), Bulletin. Memphis: Memphis State U. Center for the Study of Higher Education, Dec. 1983

Differences challenge assumptions.

-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Unknown , 1934-

Do more than listen; understand.

-- John H. Rhoades, Unknown , Unknown

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina Lux Mentis. Learning is the light of the mind.

-- Centre College motto, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

-- Horace, Carmina. IV. 4. 33., Unknown

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected?

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're easier to handle than dumb mistakes.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Don't go through life, grow through life.

-- Eric Butterworth, Unknown , Unknown

Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well.

-- Diane Ackerman, Unknown , Unknown

Don't let friends impose on you. Work calmly and silently.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Unknown , Unknown

Due to circumstances beyond my control I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant, Unknown , Unknown

Educated people do not simply believe; they believe what they can explain and cogently defend.

-- S.M. Cahn, Unknown , Unknown

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the art of the utilization of knowledge. This an art very difficult to impart…We must beware of what I will call 'inert ideas' that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized or tested or thrown into fresh combinations.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Aims of Education and Other Essays, NY: MacMillan, 1924

Education is understanding relationships.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

-- Barbara Jordan, 1991, Unknown

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

-- Malcolm S. Forbes, Unknown , Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Even God cannot change the past.

-- Agathon, Unknown , Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Every job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

-- E.W. Howe, Unknown , Unknown

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is gifted. Some open the package sooner.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Tolstoy, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone[Everybody] is ignorant only on different subjects.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.

-- Mourning Dove [Christal Quintasket], Unknown , 1888-1936

Excellence can be attained if you -Care more often than others think wise. -Risk more often than others think is safe. -Dream more often than others think is practical. -Expect more than others think is possible.

-- Janet Cagery, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

-- Heinrich Heine, Unknown , born December 13, 1797

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

-- Vernon Law, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

-- F. P. Jones, Unknown , Unknown

Facing it, always facing it. That's the way to get through. Face it.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , Unknown

Facing up to your mistakes keeps you from repeating them. Successful people make plenty of mistakes but hardly ever the same one twice.

-- Debra A. Benton, Lions Don't Need to Roar. Warner Books, 1993

Faculty are the folks at the front of the room. Students are the folks in front of the folks at the front of the room. Administrative Staff are the folks behind the folks in front of the folks at the front of the room.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

-- John Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

-- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch, 1871-2

Failure is not the end but is the opportunity to try again.

-- Tommy Phelps, Western Kentucky University student, Unknown , Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

-- Truman Capote, Unknown , Unknown

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

-- J. Krishnamurti, On Education., Unknown

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

-- Dolly Parton, Unknown , Unknown

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying…And suddenly realize I forgot to live.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

For you to be successful sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

General notions are generally wrong.

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, March 1710

Generosity is giving more than you can…pride is taking less than you need.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Genius is only a form of sustained patience.

-- Donald Murray, Unknown , Unknown

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , born November 30, 1835

Get your mind set…..Confidence will lead you on.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3--not even for large values of 2.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

-- Sam Ewig, Unknown , Unknown

He didn't give a darn who chaired the meeting as long as he took the minutes….with reference to Stalin.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He who does not remember the past is condemned to forget where he parked.

-- Ann Landers column, Unknown , Unknown

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees....The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

-- Paracelsus, Unknown , Unknown

He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

He who stops being better stops being good.

-- Oliver Cromwell, Unknown , Unknown

He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little grey cells. It is 'up to them.'"

-- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

-- Franklin P. Jones, Unknown , Unknown

Honor lies in honest toil.

-- Grover Cleveland, Unknown , Unknown

How Important Are You? More than you think. A rooster minus a hen equals no baby chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes. If the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory? Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t have amounted to much if the piano tuner hadn’t shown up. A cracker maker will do better if there’s a cheesemaker. The most skillful surgeon needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just as Rodgers needed Hammerstein you need someone and someone needs you.

-- From Wall Street Journal, Unknown , Unknown

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when clearly it is Ocean.

-- Arthur C. Clarke, Unknown , Unknown

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

-- Anne Frank, Unknown , Unknown

Human beings are not born once and for all on the days their mothers give birth to them...Life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

-- Stephen Leacock, Unknown , Unknown

I am never afraid of what I know.

-- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

I am not a teacher--only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you.

-- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married", Unknown

I am not afraid of storms, for I have learned how to sail my ship.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Unknown , Unknown

I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

-- Anna Louise Strong, I Change Worlds, 1935

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

-- Sir Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

-- attributed to Socrates, Unknown , Unknown

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, Unknown , Unknown

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention--invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

-- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

I fully realize that I have not succeeded in answering all of your questions…Indeed, I feel I have not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only serve to raise a whole new set of questions, which only lead to more problems, some of which we weren’t even aware were problems. To sum it all up…In some ways I feel we are confused as ever, but I believe we are confused on a higher level, and about more important things.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

-- Septima Clark, in Brian Lanker (1989). I Dream a World., 1898-1987

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game's winning shot…and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why…I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

-- Dudley Field Malone, Unknown , Unknown

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

-- Jimmy Hoffa, Unknown , Unknown

I mistrust all systemisers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1895

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

-- Lily Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

I refuse to organize my life. It would interfere with the creative process.

-- on a Button, Unknown , Unknown

I see no use in developing my mind and soul without bringing my body along for the ride--after all, it was my body and its pain...that led me to be ... the person I am today.

-- Scott Andrew Smith, "On the Desk" in The Teacher's Body. p. 33 Freedman, D & Holmes, M Eds., Albany: State U. of NY Press, 2003

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

-- Patricia Moyes, Unknown , Unknown

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

-- Bessie Delany, Unknown , Unknown

I would honor a man who would give to his country a good newspaper.

-- Rutherford B. Hayes, Unknown , Unknown

I'd like to know why life can't present all its problems when you're 17 and know all the answers.

-- A.C. Jolly, Unknown , Unknown

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

-- Marin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

If a student submits a paper that is good enough to be published, maybe it has.

-- Dr. Jefferson D. Caskey, Unknown , c.1977-8

If at first you don't succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the instructions.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

-- Audre Lorde, Unknown , Unknown

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

-- Arthur Ashe, Unknown , Unknown

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

-- Nikki Giovannit, Unknown , Unknown

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

-- Gail Sheehy, Unknown , 1937-

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

-- FMEA, Stamatis, Unknown , Unknown

If you cain't bear no crosses, You cain't wear no crown.

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

-- Mo Udall, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

-- Toni Morrison, Unknown , Unknown

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.

-- Kingsley Amis, Unknown , born 1922

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult.

-- Heraclitus, Unknown , Unknown

If you don't open your mouth, you don't get fed.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

If you ever think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

-- Anita Roddick, Unknown , 1996

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you look in the right places, you can find good offerings.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

-- Katharine Hepburn, Unknown , Unknown

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you wish to, you will have an opportunity.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - the universe has been left unlocked.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Imagination is more powerful even than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

-- Publius Terentius Afer, Unknown , Unknown

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth--teaching others

-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Unknown , Unknown

In this country we spend 4 times the amount on beer more than we spend on books - that's why our bellies are bigger than our brains.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

-- Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. Education, Unknown

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

-- Cheikh Anta Diop, Unknown , Unknown

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

-- June Singer, Unknown , Unknown

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

-- August Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, Unknown , Unknown

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It is a good time to start something new.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , 1892-1983

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy; to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be fully possessed of the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of passion, the energy of action.

-- George Eliot, Middlemarch, p. 206-7, Boston: Houghton Miflin. 1956, 1872

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

-- Elizabeth Kenny, in Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, 1976

It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

-- J. Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to learn late--than never.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

-- Thomas Robert Gaines, Unknown , Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, Unknown , Unknown

It is hard: to forget, to apologize, to save money, to be unselfish, to avoid mistakes, to keep your temper at all times, to think first and act afterwards, to maintain a high standard, to keep on keeping on, to shoulder the blame, to be charitable, to admit error, to take advice, to forgive. But it is right to do these things.

-- 'Newsletter' Newsletter, Unknown , 1994, February

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, Unknown , Unknown

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

It is not doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret to happiness.

-- James Barrie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not important to be the best…just do your best.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

-- Comte D'Artois (later Charles X), proclamation as he entered Paris as published in the "Moniteur", Unknown

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

-- Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, "Citizenship in a Republic", April 23, 1910

It is not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It is one of the great pleasures of a student's life to buy a heap of books at the beginning of the autumn. Here, he fancies, are all the secrets.

-- Robert Lynd, Unknown , Unknown

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little--do what you can.

-- Sydney Smith, Unknown , 1771-1845

It is up to us to change our community by holding ourselves accountable, and the politicians we elect accountable, to making a positive difference in all our communities...Get involved. Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror and ask yourself: What have I done today to make this country better?

-- Sam Sanchez, commentary aired on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. and quoted in Feb 15, 1995, The Washington Spectator, Unknown

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

-- Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

It isn't what you know but the simple things you don't overlook.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

-- Jean Nidetch, Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have ta