Quotes
Quotes about Men
'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum. Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]
Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks.
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as the heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.
I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
