Necessity is a good school. [ Al-Anabari ]
Heresy is the school of pride. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
At a good table we may go to school. [ Proverb ]
What is this world? thy school, O Misery! [ Young ]
With as good a will as ever I came from school. [ Proverb ]
The society of ladies is a school of politeness. [ Proverb ]
One good mother is worth a hundred school masters. [ George Herbert ]
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. [ Ward Beecher ]
To wilful men. The injuries that they themselves procure
Must be their school-masters. [ William Shakespeare ]
The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the greatest fool. [ Swift ]
The world is only saved by the breath of the school children. [ Talmud ]
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence. [ Carlyle ]
School distinctions are the impressions of the devil's cloven foot. [ Proverb ]
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. [ Carlyle ]
We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]
To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school. [ Fletcher ]
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. [ Gibbon ]
Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]
Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. [ Carlyle ]
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. [ Yogi Berra ]
The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free nation. [ U. S. Grant ]
Affliction is a school of virtue: it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. [ Atterbury ]
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. [ Hannah More ]
Is example nothing? It is every thing. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. [ Edmund Burke ]
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. [ Lowell ]
No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. [ Richter ]
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. [ Horace Mann ]
If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. [ Charles Lamb ]
Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes, form the chief interests of human life. [ Channing ]
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. [ Beaconsfield ]
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity. [ Addison ]
When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations. [ Celia Burleigh ]
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Remember this; they that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over your knuckles. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. [ Thoreau ]
Occur or Transpire? The misuse of these words is very common. Occur means simply to take place, to happen; transpire to leak out, to come to light. Hence, it is incorrect to say, The annual school exhibition transpired last week.
The proper word here is occurred. But transpire is correctly used in such a sentence as, The proceedings of the caucus have not yet transpired
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]
There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]