An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

Patrick J. Adams

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Francis Bacon

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

Drew Barrymore

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett