Quotes
Quotes about Time
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.
"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee; Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
It's a long time between drinks.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried it again.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, And make a checkered shadow on the ground; Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit, And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns, As if a double hunt were heard at once, Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise; And after conflict such as was supposed The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed, When with a happy storm they were surprised, And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave, We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds Be unto us as is a nurse's song Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.
