quotes about college

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. ~Johnny Carson



Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? ~Adlai Stevenson



He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin



The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~Henry S. Haskins



If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser



Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry



All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. ~A.J.P. Taylor



There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb



If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark



Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988



Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ~Joseph Joubert



I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed



Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees



Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ~Attributed to both Jason Hutchison and John Benfield



It takes a while, but eventually we appreciate that the people who were always there for the special occasions of our youth had other things to do. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown



Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau



For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1758



In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow