The Circular File

Love is no assignment for cowards. - Ovid

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Only time will tell if we stand the test of time. - Van Halen

Absolute Zero: The lowest grade you can get on a test - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson

All women are crazy, it's only a question of degree. - WC Fields

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

URL: What you don't want the doc to say at your yearly exam - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. - Natalie Portman

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen

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

College Professor: A man who gets what's left over after the football coach is paid off - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

Graduate School: The place where a young scholar goes off his Dad's payroll - and on to his wife's - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty. - Mark Batterson

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? - Lynette Mather

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. - Greg Boyle

Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home. - Yvonne Prinz

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. - Leonard Nimoy

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

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall

With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey

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

I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. - Ernest Hemingway

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. - Bertrand Russell

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

For one human being to love another - that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks: the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer M Riike

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds. - Daphne Bavelier

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno