quotes about exams

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. ~Sholem Asch



Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal



All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"



Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle



To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude



Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb



No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a child. ~Knights of Pythagoras



Plagiarism: literary theft; when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own; to avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.



The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music. ~Lewis Thomas



Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks. ~Una Stannard



Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree



A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden



Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin



Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. ~Author Unknown