"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."

Wycherley, William on women   

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

Frost, Robert on bosses and employees
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"Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact."

Mcintosh, M. C. on work   

"There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it."

Russo, Rene on attitude   

"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

Mann, Horace on school   

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."

Smith, Lillian on education   

"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better."

Beecher, Henry Ward on christians and christianity   

"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."

Reagan, Ronald on president   

"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."

Morgan, Charles on ten commandments   

"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."

Brasher, Chris on bosses and employees   

"It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point."

Dixon, Phil on bosses and employees   

"Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions."

Bartolme, Fernanda on bosses and employees
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"I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter."

Webb, Spud on performance   

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup -- that's good in bed."

Shields, Brooke on sex   

"In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."

Moore, Julianne on youth   

"You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now."

Sorvino, Mira on acting and actors   

"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."

Duncan, Isadora on dance and dancing   

"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."

Silone, Ignazio on value   

"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."

Yeats, William Butler on women
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"Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different."

Pomerantz, Hart on law and lawyers   

"While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap."

Kroc, Ray on colleges and universities   

"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."

Coolio on books - reading
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"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

Patton, George S. on failure
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"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to."

Benson, Ezra Taft on experience   

"Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Pirandello, Luigi on women   

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."

Fielding, Henry on education
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"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

Heine, Heinrich on experience
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"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs."

King, Florence on education   

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."

Frost, Robert on school   

"After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school."

Hubbard, Kin on greatness   

"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time."

Unknown, Source on experience   

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

Lombardi, Vince on football
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"First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying"

Unknown, Source on life
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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."

Menander of Athens on experience