Quotes – Page 5

Never regard study as a duty

“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.” (Einstein)

A gifted teacher is as rare as…

“A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money” (Anonymous)

He who dares to teach

“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn” (Anonymous)

We must believe in luck

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
-Jean Cocturan

Everything is funny as long as…

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. — Will Rogers

Put your hand on a hot stove

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
-Albert Einstein

Don’t take life too seriously

Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out of it alive. — Elbert Hubbard

The trouble with being punctual is

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.
– Franklin P. Jones

If you never want to see a man again

If you never want to see a man again, say, ‘I love you, I want to marry you. I want to have children…’ – they leave skid marks. — Rita Rudner

I only go to work on days

I only go to work on days that don’t end in a ‘y’. — Robert Paul

To teach well, we need not say

“To teach well, we need not say all that we know, only what is useful for the pupil to hear” (Anon.)

Laughter is the closest distance

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. — Victor Borge