nice quotes for teachers

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~Joseph Addison



If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~Kahlil Gibran



Oxygen is overrated. ~Author Unknown



The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842



I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives. ~Rob Lee, 1998



Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~Albert Einstein



Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ~Jean Genet



An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley



Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson



If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914



The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead. ~Author Unknown



I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett



Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. ~Antonio Perez, Aforismos



Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon



You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers



An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset



I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys



The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



A hug is a handshake from the heart. ~Author Unknown