A critic is a legless
man who teaches running.
--Channing Pollock |
A dog teaches a boy
fidelity, perseverance, and to turn
around three times before lying down.
--Robert Benchley |
A rattlesnake that
doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
--Jessamyn West |
America is the only
country left where we teach languages so
that no pupil can speak them.
--John Erskine |
Bores bore each other
too; but it never seems to teach them
anything.
--Don Marquis |
Children today are
tyrants. They contradict their parents,
gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
--Socrates |
Dad taught me
everything I know. Unfortunately, he
didn't teach me everything he knows.
--Al Unser, Jr. |
Eighteen holes of golf
will teach you more about your foe than
eighteen years of dealing with him
across a desk.
--Grantland Rice |
Experience is a good
teacher, but she sends in terrific
bills.
--Minna Thomas
Antrim |
Give a man a fish, and
you feed him for a day. Teach a man to
fish, and you get rid of him on
weekends.
--Gary Apple |
I had a terrible
education. I attended a school for
emotionally disturbed teachers.
--Woody Allen |
Rossini would have
been a great composer if his teacher had
spanked him enough on the backside.
--Gioacchino
Rossini |
Smartness runs in my
family. When I went to school I was so
smart my teacher was in my class for
five years.
--George Burns |
Spoon feeding in the
long run teaches us nothing but the
shape of the spoon.
--E. M. Forster |
The schoolteacher is
certainly underpaid as a childminder,
but ludicrously overpaid as an
educator.
--John Osborne |
To be good is noble,
but to teach others how to be good is
nobler -- and no trouble.
--Mark Twain |
When I was in junior
high school, the teachers voted me the
student most likely to end up in the
electric chair.
--Sylvester
Stallone |
You can't teach an old
dogma new tricks.
--Dorothy Parker |