Quotes

Benefits

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.    Oscar Wilde   Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet… Read More ›

Education

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature…. Read More ›

Cheer

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.   Thomas Tusser   Thomas Tusser (c. 1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,… Read More ›

Lunatic

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.     Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt (born October 27, 1858, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York) was the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the… Read More ›