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Ring Lardner

"I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/hXylJvF via IFTTT

Jack London

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/c3nI4te via IFTTT

Maurice Sendak

"There must be more to life than having everything." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/o1Yt4eT via IFTTT

Georges Clemenceau

"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/9lA4ipF via IFTTT

Walt Whitman

"How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!" from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/baHMYlN via IFTTT

William Blake

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/J5XAhxv via IFTTT

Leigh Hunt

"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/rO0Bfxc via IFTTT

Plato

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/EXIcnbh via IFTTT

Sophia Loren

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/xBI4eTp via IFTTT

Dorothy Parker

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bQONj2z via IFTTT

Kenneth Hildebrand

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/n4YfjL9 via IFTTT

John Kenneth Galbraith

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/NoD0cFd via IFTTT

Ogden Nash

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/EqcpiG5 via IFTTT

Kahlil Gibran

"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/rYXO3vZ via IFTTT

Woody Allen

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/FGwaLjx via IFTTT

Charles Dickens

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/C6e1pd3 via IFTTT

Jules Renard

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/UEL0rxX via IFTTT

Arlo Guthrie

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/5zarAwn via IFTTT

Management Quote of the day - They Said So

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership. - Nitin Nohria from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/8KQYtfo via IFTTT

Sports Quote of the day - They Said So

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. - Yogi Berra from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/CwB2Xx4 via IFTTT

Funny Quote of the day - They Said So

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. - Oprah Winfrey from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/irvclFY via IFTTT

Art Quote of the day - They Said So

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. - Walter Savage Landor from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/YrmCDqf via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. - Ayn Rand from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/mG5iv4s via IFTTT

J. G. C. Brainard

"Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ge8029H via IFTTT

Art Hoppe

"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/gQuXLwM via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. - Toni Morrison from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/59gtNh3 via IFTTT

Samuel Goldwyn

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Bcst0hp via IFTTT

Arab Proverb

"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/TJziIwE via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. - Bernard Branson from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/NSA0jLZ via IFTTT

Mary Renault

"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/sEu4NOM via IFTTT

John Lehman

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JMTaX8s via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know - Woodrow T. Wilson from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/Y0XCQSr via IFTTT

Walt Whitman

"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/kinr18y via IFTTT

Franklin P. Jones

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ARShZxN via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. - William Lyon Phelps from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/Y0XCQSr via IFTTT

Margaret Fuller

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/x9Panhl via IFTTT

Malcolm Forbes

"There is never enough time, unless you're serving it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/GEUFLdV via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it - Jacob Chanowski from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/2NYGOF6 via IFTTT

Bernard M. Baruch

"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/zgdsIV4 via IFTTT

Calvin Trillin

"Health food makes me sick." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/MvDZQfS via IFTTT

Bobcat Goldthwaite

"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/48mtbxC via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. - Fulton J. Sheen from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/VTrIhtj via IFTTT

John Ruskin

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/LhiqOYo via IFTTT

Leonard Louis Levinson

"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/8XEMyLk via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. - Paul W. Silver from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/DKqlVs9 via IFTTT

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bVRzD2I via IFTTT

Lily Tomlin

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/2bjmN3l via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students. - Laurie Gray from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/LA4DYiF via IFTTT

Scott Adams

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/LDzrq0P via IFTTT

Unknown

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/VOxY7iS via IFTTT

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Adversity does teach who your real friends are." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lqZOUPi via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store. - Taylor Mali from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/Ut8sSiG via IFTTT

Woody Allen

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/cQb3vmd via IFTTT

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/vSaO8Lz via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The educator has the duty of not being neutral. - Paulo Freire from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/Ut8sSiG via IFTTT

Jim Beggs

"To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/kws6VD2 via IFTTT

Graffito

"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/cV5BJMw via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I think of the learning process of an undulation of deep learning and periods of surfacing and reflection. - Josh Waitzkin from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/8oY4yxc via IFTTT

Leon Wieseltier

"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/vp2EHsg via IFTTT

Shirley Temple

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/e8SjEJg via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that. - Asa Hilliard from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/8oY4yxc via IFTTT

Will Rogers

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/sJBg6H0 via IFTTT

Sir Winston Churchill

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/HCJRXlY via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them. - Asa Hilliard from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/ySfcXHP via IFTTT

Jules Feiffer

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/z4GCscL via IFTTT

Bern Williams

"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/dzPF8iE via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves. - Derrick Jensen from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/ySfcXHP via IFTTT

Walt Disney

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/gmbQV6x via IFTTT

James Bryant Conant

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/f9IOX3j via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman. - Patricia Sequeira Belvel from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/jgnJDzP via IFTTT

Fran Lebowitz

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ZCyfAdr via IFTTT

Bette Davis

"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/e9YtUxl via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school. - Victoria Kahler from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/jgnJDzP via IFTTT

Bob Hope

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/KkpidNQ via IFTTT

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/RcB9qe5 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it. - Tod Wodicka from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/XZb6TWg via IFTTT

Holly Lisle

"Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/gDHf53u via IFTTT

Wendell Johnson

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/qskKJ1c via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs..) - Beth Fantaskey from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/XZb6TWg via IFTTT

Colette

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/oYHEJfS via IFTTT

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

"For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bOgBdXz via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. - Neal Shusterman from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/bqo5XFw via IFTTT

George Bernard Shaw

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/agG5hIJ via IFTTT

Robert Bloch

"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/3V4AJYz via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming.. Especially a wayward youth. - T.F. Hodge from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/qEpzFm7 via IFTTT

Dan Quayle

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/zG8qVCk via IFTTT

Pearl Buck

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/5BYCGaA via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. - Bill Bryson from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/qEpzFm7 via IFTTT

Jane Austen

"Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/2yz8Z3D via IFTTT

Benjamin Franklin

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ZJjHcsY via IFTTT

Josiah Quincy

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/tK61JS9 via IFTTT

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/5ONtIHM via IFTTT

Anonymous

"I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Nom6LVT via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. - Henry Jenkins from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/a1k3lcq via IFTTT

Edwina Currie

"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/3f07Pj2 via IFTTT

Charles De Gaulle

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/d6Xe4on via IFTTT