quotes about school

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ~Florence King


New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain


A lurking pun is the worst pun, one the offender has been waiting to spring on you. ~Harry Mahtar


Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator


Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. ~William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815


What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. ~Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You


There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer


If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ~Lenny Bruce


And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown


This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders


The body is a bundle of careful compromises. ~Randolph Nesse and George Williams, Why We Get Sick


In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold"


"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. ~Leo Tolstoy


Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey


A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry


Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ~Milton Berle


If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper


A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition. ~Author Unknown