Saturday, 6 October 2012

What we teachers secretly hope for


"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Enough time

 
"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."

William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)
 

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

GEORGES BRASSENS - La mauvaise reputation

Citation qui mérite qu'on s'y attarde


"La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Monday, 1 October 2012

Burning


"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."

Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856) 

Vs


"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs."

Jack Lynch, English professor, author (b. 1967)

What Really Irritates Me In Men, Women and Poodles, and Other Sartorial Considerations Very Late at Night, Part 10

  Disclaimer – this was written in the aftermath of the pandemic, a month or so after the restrictions, and rediscovered today as I wanted t...