encouraging quotes for students

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line. ~Ann Landers



People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. ~Robert Half



Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown



An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ~Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954



Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ~Charles Dickens



The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief." ~James Naismith



No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown



Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb



A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world! ~James Oppenheim



Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin. ~Rabindranath Tagore



A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ~Aldous Huxley



The adrenal gland has a very peculiar way of slowing down when it has been overtaxed and overburdened. It fails in the manner of a large dying star, which gets brighter and brighter before it burns out. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005



Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911



Losing baby teeth were a part and parcel of one's life - a symbol of growing up, and it is the tooth-fairy that makes this otherwise dreaded and painful process an exciting one - something to look forward to. ~Mansi Maheshwari



We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. ~Richard P. Feynman



Weed 'em and reap. ~Author Unknown



Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003



As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. ~Abraham Lincoln



He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo



Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. ~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif