school quotes

• All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. (Roland Barthes) [language/school/advertising/news]
• Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. (Henry Ward Beecher) [defeat/school/truth]
• A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. (Henry Ward Beecher) [school]
• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. (Henry Ward Beecher) [church/christians/school/education]
• Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers. (Chris Brasher) [office/women/school/willpower]
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other (Edmund Burke) [school/mankind/willpower]
• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Charles Caleb Colton) [genius/school]
• I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. ( Coolio) [school]
• I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [school]
• I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. (Henry Fielding) [school]
• Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other. (Benjamin Franklin) [experience/school/willpower]
• Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. (Benjamin Franklin) [experience/school/willpower]
• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. (Robert Frost) [school/life]
• The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition --God knows which --dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road. (Samuel Hahnemann) [school/nature/disease/think]
• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. (Heinrich Heine) [experience/school/high]
• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I. -men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering. (Ernest Hemingway) [combination/men/school/english]
• After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school. (Kin Hubbard) [take/school]
• He who opens a school door, closes a prison. (Victor Hugo) [school/prison]
• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? (John Keats) [school/intelligence]
• True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [school/more/confidence/sound]
• The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Ernest Renan) [school/life]
• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Theodore Roosevelt) [school/education]
• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. (Samuel Smiles) [wisdom/school/experience/instruction]
• In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. (Jonathan Swift) [school/melancholy/people/wisdom]
• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. (Henry David Thoreau) [thoughts/school/love/wisdom]
• In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards. (Mark Twain) [god/school]
• A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all. (Mark Twain) [school]
• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. (Evelyn Waugh) [english/school/willpower/housing]
• I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school. (Heidi Klum) [school/school]
• I had never been to a modeling school, and I had no idea what the job was about. (Eva Herzigova) [school]
• School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it. (Kate Bush) [school]

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