funny quotes for school

I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. ~Penny Ward Moser



Little things console us because little things afflict us. ~Blaise Pascal



Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. ~A.R. Orage



As though pure white snow flashed and sparkled with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance. ~Author unknown, about the opal



It's not enough just to change parties in this election. If we hope to truly transform this country, we have to change our politics too. It's time to turn the page. ~Barack Obama, 2007 Jun 19, Washington, D.C.



By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke



You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy



Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard



Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. ~Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," The Panda's Thumb, 1980



There's no waiting for friends on a powder day. ~Author Unknown



I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse



We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization



One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb



Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France



There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron



My other car is a Zamboni. ~Hockey Saying



Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious! ~Jessi Lane Adams



An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan



We have met the enemy and they are us! ~Walt Kelly, Pogo, 1971



The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. ~J.B. Jackson