funny education quotes

A woman is as young as her knees. ~Mary Quant



Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers



Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene



I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~Marlene Dietrich



Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. ~Kin Hubbard



It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979



It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde



An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ~Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954



Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ~J.K. Rowling, "Dobby's Reward," Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Arthur Weasley



Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher



Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets



The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what's been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga - the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body - you initiate a process that turns the fight-or-flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms. ~Richard Faulds



The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. ~Henry Van Dyke



This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. ~Quentin Crisp



The safest risk is the one you didn't take. ~Author Unknown



The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck



When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. ~Robert Bolt



What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~Burton Rascoe



Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller



Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. ~Rick Reilly, "Master Strokes," Sports Illustrated