"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 simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford, 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 taught me, 1994

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

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

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

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

It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong, not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich, not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned, and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

-- Francis Bacon, Sr., Unknown , Unknown

Just say know.

-- Mary Mathrey, RN, Unknown , Unknown

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is a treasure but practice is the key to it.

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power.

-- Hobbs or Sir Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

-- C.G. Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences…Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

-- Anne Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown

Learning is a treasure which accompanies us everywhere.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

-- Abigail Adams, letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780

Learning is wealth that can't be stolen.

-- Philippine Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

-- Haki R. Madhubuti, Unknown , Unknown

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius, The Analects, Unknown

Let every sluice of knowledge be open and set a-flowing.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

-- Mother Teresa, Unknown , 1910-1997

Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Let your life speak.

-- Quaker saying, Unknown , Unknown

Liberal Arts Major…Will Think for Money

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

-- Annette Funicello, Unknown , Unknown

Life is a journey, not a destination.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

-- W.C. Handy, Unknown , Unknown

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

-- Marge Piercy, Unknown , Unknown

Life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, words and deeds return to us--sooner or later--with astounding accuracy.

-- Florence Shinn, Unknown , Unknown

Life never helps the man who will not act.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

Life requires thorough preparation. Veneer isn't worth anything.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Literature is my utopia.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

Look about you, take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you, and you will learn to talk to them.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Look at the footprints you've made.

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

Mathematics is the door and the key to the sciences.

-- Roger Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar, Unknown

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way….you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Most of our future lies ahead.

-- Denny Crum, U of Louisville basketball coach, Unknown , Unknown

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

-- James Harvey Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

-- Mary Todd Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

-- Indira Ghandi, in Carolyn Warner (ed.) (1992) The Last Word, lived 1917-1984

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-- Helen Hayes, Unknown , Unknown

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

-- Leopold Fechtner, Unknown , Unknown

Never underestimate your power to change yourself: never overestimate your power to change others.

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises: why then are you not taking part in them?

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

No one can go back and make a brand new start. However, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

-- Author unknown, Unknown , Unknown

No one rises to low expectations.

-- Les Brown, Unknown , Unknown

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

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

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

-- Margaret Young., Unknown , Unknown

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

-- Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Unknown , Unknown

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

-- John Wanamaker, Unknown , Unknown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20., 1995

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

-- Alexander Fleming, Unknown , Unknown

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.

-- Alexandre Dumas, pere, Unknown , Unknown

Only people who do things make mistakes.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Only the mediocre can always be at their best.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorism, 1905

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

-- N.D. Hillis, Unknown , Unknown

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

-- Shelby Steele, 1991, Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

-- Pearl Buck, Unknown , Unknown

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been 80 years at it, and have not reached my goal.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Original ideas allow you to meet talented people.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , Unknown

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

-- Robert Browning, Unknown , Unknown

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

-- Boston-NY AIDS Ride., Unknown , c2000

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, Unknown , Unknown

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

-- William Shakespeare, Unknown , Unknown

Outside the classroom the student must live in the world; inside the classroom the student can own the world.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, March 1., 1995

People fail forward to success.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

-- Anne Sullivan, letter in 'Helen Keller, The Story of My Life', Oct. 30, 1887

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot...This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existence we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

-- Stephen Fry, Preface for "The Book of General Ignorance" by Lloyd & Mitchinson, 2006

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole, Unknown , Unknown

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

-- Walter Bagehot, Unknown , Unknown

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

-- Heywood Broun, Unknown , born December 7, 1888

Practice random acts of intelligence & senseless acts of self-control.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

-- Norman Vincent Peale, Unknown , Unknown

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider

-- Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1605

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Reading without thinking is as nothing, as a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes one think.

-- Louis L'Amour, Unknown , Unknown

Reality was such a jungle--with no signposts, landmarks, or boundaries.

-- Helen Hayes, 1900-1993, On Reflection, 1968

Repetition is the mother of learning.

-- Kennet Oberly, Smithsonian, p. 60, 1995, May

Rules are the solutions to yesterday's problems.

-- Button, Unknown , Unknown

Said the Wizard of Oz to the scarecrow, "I can't give you brains but I can give you a diploma."

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Seek and ye shall find; find and ye shall want to seek a whole lot more.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, March 17, 1995

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

-- Pindar, Unknown , 518-438 B.C.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham J. Heschel, Unknown , Unknown

Shortcuts aren't always.

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

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

-- Jean Cocteau, Unknown , born July 5, 1889.

Some minds are eager for any change, and some are angry at any.

-- M. Woolsey Stryker, Unknown , 1894

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.

-- Kobi Yamada, Unknown , Unknown

Sparse surroundings create room for the mind.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching consists of causing people to go into situations from which they cannot escape except by thinking.

-- possibly William Sparke, Unknown , Unknown

Technology is a big plus in your life

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

-- Ray Bradbury, Unknown , Unknown

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

-- W. N. Taylor, Unknown , Unknown

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

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

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Unknown , Unknown

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV--more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

-- Shook, M. & Shook, R., The Book of Odds, 1991

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

The best imromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

-- Ruth Gordon, Unknown , born October 30, 1896

The best way for a student to get out of difficulty is to go through it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.

-- E-mail humor, Unknown , Unknown

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

-- Lydia Maria Child, Unknown , Unknown

The boy had just learned to plough with the family mule. He was in the field yelling out orders and trying to show his new skill. Finally his father stopped him and said, "How long have you been plowing?" "At least a couple of days," the young boy replied. "And how long has the mule been plowing?" the father asked. "At least fifteen years," the boy replied. "Don't you think you would be wise just to follow the mule."

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The color of truth is gray.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Ellen Parr, Unknown , Unknown

The current year will bring you much happiness.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.

-- Mme. du Deffand, Unknown , Unknown

The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.

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

The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty…though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.

-- Emma Hart Willard, in Anna C. Brackett (1892), The Technique of Rest, 1787-1870

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.

-- Joe Girard, Unknown , Unknown

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it, not having it, to confess your ignorance.

-- Confucius, Unknown , Unknown

The essential thing is not what I do but the significance that I attach to what I do. Once that happens, nothing is ordinary any more, and the most trivial reality is transfigured and takes on a divine and eternal dimension.

-- Boulad, All in Grace, Unknown

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

-- Herbert (Victor) Prochnow, Sr., Unknown , born May 18, 1897

The first ninety percent of the task takes ten percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

-- Ninety-ninety rule of project schedules, Unknown , Unknown

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

-- Robert Anton Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

The grandest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

-- D. Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

-- Vince Lombardi, Unknown , Unknown

The heart is as important as the head in learning

-- K. Patricia Cross, Motivation: Er...Will That Be on the Test?, The Cross Papers, Number 5,, 2001, February

The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

-- Richard Wright, Unknown , Unknown

The lasting measure of good teaching is what the individual student learns and carries away.

-- Stanford Erickson, Unknown , Unknown

The library is a valuable institution, satisfying our thirst for knowledge and some peace and quiet.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The life of an academic is one of endless compromise on how to spend one's time.

-- Jonathan Haughton, "The Northeast Voice", p. 11, March 21, 1996

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

-- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Unknown , Unknown

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

-- Bishop W. C. Mager, Unknown , Unknown

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

-- Carter G. Woodson, 1933, Unknown

The most important questions in life are unanswerable--but approachable.

-- Jamie McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

The nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never will and never can be.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

-- Marcel Proust, Unknown , Unknown

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is whether it goes in or not.

-- Charles Barkley, Unknown , Unknown

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

-- John Locke, Unknown , 1693

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

-- John Alfred Langford, Unknown , Unknown

The only thing worse than learning the truth is not learning the truth.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

The paper clip... is a powerful force for order.

-- Newsweek Special Issue, Unknown , Winter 1997-98

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

-- Max Beerbohm, Unknown , Unknown

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

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

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792

The pursuit of the truth shall set you free--even if you never catch up with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

-- James Galway, Centrepiece, 2003

The rest is silence.

-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V. 2., Unknown

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

-- John Amos Comenius, Unknown , 1592-1670

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

-- Pearl S. Buck, Unknown , Unknown

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , born September 15, 1889

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

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

The text is a machine for producing meaning.

-- Octavio Paz, Unknown , Unknown

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

-- Lorraine Hansberry, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

-- Samuel McChord Crothers, Unknown , born June 7, 1857

The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.

-- Josh Billings, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with trouble is it starts out as fun.

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

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

-- Robert Musil, Unknown , Unknown

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it--right or wrong--may be given.

-- Susanne K. Langer, Unknown , Unknown

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, -- a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses…

-- Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood, 1889

The world is but canvas to our imaginations.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

-- William Howard Taft, Unknown , Unknown

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

-- David Starr Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

The worst kind of poverty is ignorance.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There are no limits to the power of the human mind to construct new meaning from experience.

-- Novak and Gowin, Unknown , 1984

There are two types of students who ask to do extra credit: those who do not need it and those who will not complete it.

-- Art Peterson, Unknown , Unknown

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

-- Joseph Brodsky, Unknown , 1991, May 19

There can be too much communication between people.

-- Ann Beattie, Unknown , Unknown

There cannot be a crisis this week; my schedule is already full.

-- E-mail humor, Unknown , Unknown

There is a 4-word formula for success that applies equally well to organizations or individuals--make yourself useful.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

-- Mark Twain, Notebooks, Unknown

There is a great difference between information and inspiration. You can get information by the cartful and the wagonful and the libraryful and the Sunday newspaperful, or in any other chunks or lumps that you choose. ..It is cheap; it is common; and it is worth about as much as it costs. But inspiration which comes from touching the life of truth itself is a priceless gem which comes only from close, devoted and continuous toil. A man knows when he has touched red-hot truth. He feels the shock…

-- Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Unknown , 1898

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

-- Poor Richard’s Almanac, Unknown , Unknown

There is no achievement without goals.

-- Robert J. McKain, Unknown , Unknown

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

-- Mary Little, Unknown , Unknown

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , 1856-1900

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

-- Alexander Woollcott, Unknown , Unknown

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

-- Emerson, Essays. Of Spiritual Laws, Unknown

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. One can find meaning in life in three different ways: by creating a work or doing a deed; by experiencing something or encountering someone; and by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering. We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation. I bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

-- Viktor E. Frankl, who survived Auschwitz and 3 other Nazi concentration camps, Unknown , Unknown

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing--but we all do and call it Hope.

-- Edgar Watson Howe, Unknown , Unknown

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

They know enough who know how to learn.

-- Henry Adams, Unknown , Unknown

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

-- Casey Stengel, Unknown , Unknown

They said it couldn't be done, but that doesn't always work.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Things change, and the certain convictions of one time become the dated beliefs of another. What does not change is the quest for understanding, humility about what we know, and respect for views that differ from our own.

-- John M. Reisman, Unknown , Unknown

Thinking is the activity I like best, and writing is simply thinking through my fingers.

-- Isaac Asimov, Unknown , Unknown

This road has been paved with the best mistakes I ever made.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

-- Santayana, Unknown , born December 16, 1863

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

-- Joseph Stine, Unknown , Unknown

Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has thought yet, about that which everybody sees.

-- Schopenhauer cited in Bertalanffy, Unknown , 1952

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

To estimate the time it takes to do a task: estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus, we allocate 2 days for a one-hour task.

-- Westheimer's Rule, Unknown , Unknown

To generalize is to be an idiot.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

To see what is in front of one's nose requires constant struggle.

-- George Orwell, Unknown , Unknown

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

To teach is to learn.

-- Japanese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

To those of you who recieved honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the "C" students. I say: You, too, can be president of the United States.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

-- Michael Hanson, Unknown , Unknown

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy--if not less of it-- doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

-- Terry McMillan, Unknown , Unknown

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected!

-- Alice James, Unknown , Unknown

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

-- Giordano Bruno, Unknown , Unknown

Truth fears no questions.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

-- Henry van Dyke, Unknown , Unknown

Versatility is one of your outstanding traits.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.

-- Sy Wise, Unknown , Unknown

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

-- Frank Outlaw, Unknown , Unknown

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

-- Elie Wiesel, Unknown , Unknown

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , 384-322 B. C.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

-- William Arthur Ward, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

-- William Ernest Hocking, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life, but we can decide what happens in us--how we take it, what we do with it--and that is what really counts in the end. How we take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty--that is the test of living.

-- Joseph Fort Newton, Unknown , Unknown

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Unknown , Unknown

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

-- Martha Grimes, Unknown , Unknown

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

-- Marcel Proust, Unknown , Unknown

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

-- Ruth Benedict, Unknown , Unknown

We have not...convinced our youth that the important thing about a degree is what they learn.

-- Wayne Willis, Lexington Herald Leader, p. A9,, 1996, October 4

We have nothing to fear but fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed effort to convert retreat into advance.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Unknown , Unknown

We learn by practice.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

-- Daniel Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

We must be the change we wish to see.

-- Mohandas Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

We must reinforce argument with results.

-- Booker T. Washington, Unknown , Unknown

We ought to hear at least one little song every day, read a good poem, see a first-rate painting, and if possible speak a few sensible words.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , (1749-1832)

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

We should so live and labor in our time that what comes to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, And what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

-- Florence King, The Portable Curmudgeon Redux. p. 209, 1992

We would rather criticize ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

-- LaRochefoucauld, Unknown , Unknown

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

-- Robert Wilensky, Unknown , Unknown

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

-- Alice James, Unknown , Unknown

What could matter more than to take a human being and change her into a different human being.

-- Unknown , Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady", Unknown

What gets measured, gets managed.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

What if the Hokey Pokey is really what it's all about.

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

-- Wendell Phillips, Unknown , Unknown

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

-- Peter Ustinov, Unknown , Unknown

What lies before us and what lies beyond us is tiny compared to what lies within us.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

-- Adolf Hitler, Unknown , 1889-1945

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

-- Scottish proverb, Unknown , Unknown

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

What we believe in is what works.

-- Bill Clinton, Unknown , Unknown