| Author |
Quotes |
| Russell Green | Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! |
| Shecky Greene | The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. |
| Shel Silverstein | Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. |
| Smith ! Jones | Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. |
| Socrates | The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. |
| Stendhal | A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. |
| Stephen Leacock | The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. |
| Sydney Smith | We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | . . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. |
| Thomas Carruthers | A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. |
| Thomas Carruthers | Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. |
| Thomas Gray | Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. |
| Thomas Nash | Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence. |
| Thornton Wilder | Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. |
| Tobias George Smollett | The great Cham of literature. |
| Tom Clancy | Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. |
| Truman Capote | All literature is gossip. |
| Tryon Edwards | How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. |
| Virgil | Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, The. |
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