funny sayings

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of educ

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course--because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.


Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuou

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge, but power.


Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.


Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow.

Education is the best provision for old age.

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.



We know what we

Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.


Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Time is not measured by the passing of years bu

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

To accomplish great things, we

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these – that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I’ve done and who I’ve been.


The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The roots of educ

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.


All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.


Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.



You have brains in you

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.


Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as pa