Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Doris Roberts

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Joey Adams

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

Omar Sharif

Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

William Wordsworth

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

David Lee Roth

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Terry Pratchett

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

Conan O'Brien

What the hell is ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain particularly instantaneous.

John Green

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

E. V. Cooke

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

Georg Brandes