Quotes (#480)

"We learn from experience that men
never learn anything from experience."
- George Bernard Shaw

Great ideas have been lost because the people
who had them were afraid of being laughed at.
- Roosevelt Garner

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"
I’m sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.
- Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)

But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61)

Each child is an adventure into a better life — an
opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–78)

"Children need models
rather than critics."
- Joseph Joubert