John Anthony Ciardi Famous Quotes
"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it"
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.
John Anthony Ciardi Quotations
"It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are."
Sir James MacKintosh
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.
Sandy Farquhar
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
John Dickinson
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
George S Patton
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
Chinese Proverb
"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them."
John Greenleaf Whittier
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."
Saying Folk
I have impeached myself by resigning.
Richard Milhous Nixon