quotes for teachers from students

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994



Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer



Let's have some new cliches. ~Samuel Goldwyn



Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. ~From a Washington Post reader submission word contest



If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb



I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~Author Unknown



Happiness is like a kiss - it feels best when you give it to someone else. ~Author Unknown



Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. ~Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844



As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes



Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out. ~Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr.



There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth



A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ~Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed



Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses



Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? ~Joe E. Wells



For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. ~Millard Fuller



Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)



I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein



Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670