| Here are more of
Clyde's favorite
quotes: "Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things."
Plato
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds."
Albert Einstein
"If a teacher is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his
wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind"
Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet
"God is good, but never dance in a small boat."
Irish proverb
"The mediocre teacher tells; the good teacher
explains; the superior teacher demonstrates; the great
teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward
"Writing is thinking, that's why it's so
difficult"
Frances R. Katz
"The Circus is like a dream...the flyers
really fly and catch each other in the way you are caught in good dreams.”
Ernest Hemingway
"The Circus is a change of pace - beauty
against our daily ugliness, excitement against our boredom ... Every man, woman
and child comes from the circus refreshed and renewed and ready to survive!”
John Steinbeck
“Circus performers are
emancipated beings. For them, the world is not what is seems to us. They see
with their eyes. They live in the moment fully, and the radiance that emanates
from them is a perpetual song of joy.”
Henry Miller
"I cannot think clearly
when my feet hurt."
Abraham Lincoln
"Come forth in to the light of things, let nature be your
teacher."
William Wordsworth
"Appreciation is a
wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as
well."
Voltaire
"Education is not filling
a bucket but lighting a fire."
William Butler Yeats
"Ordinary riches can be
stolen, real riches cannot. in your soul are infinitely precious things
that cannot be taken from you."
Oscar Wilde
"I am tomorrow, or some
future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established
yesterday or some previous day."
James Joyce
"One ought, every day at
least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Many a time we look for
one thing, and light on another."
Miguel de Cervantes
"The most courageous act
is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
Coco Chanel
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover."
Mark Twain
"There is always one moment in childhood when
the door opens and lets the future in."
Graham Greene
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand
than lie awake about them afterwards."
Baltasar Gracián
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong
attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Alva Edison
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is
organized life."
Immanuel Kant
"Ignorance affirms or denies
wholeheartedly. Science doubts."
Voltaire
"Never discourage anyone...who
continually makes progress,
no matter how slow."
Plato
"Doubt is one of the names of
intelligence."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Do the right thing. It will
gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain
"It is unwise to be too sure of
one's own wisdom."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Time cools, time clarifies; no
mood can be maintained quite unaltered
through the course of hours."
Mark Twain
"Choose always the way that seems
the best however rough it may be;
custom will soon render it easy and agreeable."
Pythagoras
"Truth is the daughter of time,
not of authority."
Sir Francis Bacon
"A problem is a chance for you to
do your best."
Duke Ellington
"When no wind blows even the
weathervane has character."
Stanislaw Jerzy
Lec
"It is not because things are
difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Seneca, Lucius
Annaeus
"Concepts are embedded in words"
Henri Bergson
"Think like a man of action, act
like a man of thought."
Henri Bergson
"Whatever one man is capable of
conceiving, other men will be able to achieve."
Jules
Verne
"It is not enough to have a good
mind. The main thing is to use it well."
René Descartes
"Grasp the subject, the words will
follow."
Cato the Elder
"To accomplish great things, we
must dream as well as act."
Anatole France
"Once the game is over, the King
and the pawn go back in the same box."
Italian proverb
"Science may set limits to
knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russell
"When you drink the water,
remember the spring."
Chinese proverb
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