The Circular File

Tests of love always end badly. - Melanie Thernstrom

Cardiology: The study of poker playing - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. - Laurence J. Peter

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

Your best self shows up only when you are put to an impossible test. - Unknown

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. - Sigfried Hulzer

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. - Francis James Grimke

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe

Yale: 1. A well known Ivy League university; 2. What southern cheerleaders do. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson after. - Vernon S Law

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. - Finley P Dunne

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics, - Michel de Montaigne

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous. - Mark Batterson

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes. - Robert T Kiyosaki

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. - Dag Hammarskjold

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. - Thomas Mann

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better, or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me. - Daniel Radcliffe

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all is to survive prosperity. - Oswald Sanders

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program. - Mark Zuckerberg

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. - David Niven

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. - Shirley Jones

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. - Joel Osteen

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. - Mitch Daniels

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country. - Kilburn Hall

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. - Stephen Covey

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. - Stephen Covey

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali