The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.


Jonathan Grayer

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Our college hasn't taken a stand on this issue. Our purpose is just to help students understand diff...
DAN RICE
Level-two students have the ability to handle songs that are harder. To higher level students I give...
HONG ZHANG
We're very concerned about the effects this will have on students and making sure with admissions of...
JENNIFER TOPIEL
Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different s...
CATHY AUSTIN
It's just a way for students here to show pride in the FFA. The officers picked something different ...
ABBY FLAHERTY
The CIM represents a high level of achievement, and I appreciate the hard work it takes for students...
SUSAN CASTILLO
At Columbine High School, it is essential that you have respect for your fellow students who may hav...
FRANK DEANGELIS
These students could compete with first-year law students. It's a broad kind of curriculum and diffe...
ALAN BROADMAN
The institutions the students designated to get score reports have received notice, as well as their...
JENNIFER TOPIEL
Nationally, our students aren't competing as well as they need to be with other countries when it co...
CATHY SCHROEDER
It gives the students an opportunity to work with teachers in an entirely different way.
KATHLEEN MCCONNELL
For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help ...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
I'm their mom, I'm their worst enemy, I'm the person that kicks them in the butt. It's different rol...
ANNE HAVERLAND
It's relatively convenient for my daughter, as well as some of the other students that come here, an...
DERRICK HARRIS
The growth accomplishes a parallel increase in students taking demanding courses such as pre-algebra...
GASTON CAPERTON
We're dealing with a very broad umbrella, ... Not only are we trying to attract different racial gro...
CHRISTINE TAYLOR
New programs, like Texas Grant, which gives aid to students who are in need and have completed colle...
RAY GRASSHOFF
Many students at the two schools are on a college track. Some students, along with their parents, as...
JUNICHI ASAUMI
The ones that we could not transfer students from was junior high and high schools,
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS
These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully...
DON BOHANAN
Students need to take more college preparatory courses in high school, and schools need to begin for...
RAY GRASSHOFF
We want to focus on helping all students know they belong. The current events that are happening hav...
ASHLEY KELLEY
I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the iss...
KEVIN ALLEN
Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school stude...
JEAN CHATZKY
Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and ...
DAVID ARMSTRONG
[Tulane students are finding ways to apply to other schools, as well, for the fall semester.] The st...
AMERICAN COUNCIL
It's hard for high school students to get an organized party together. Those kind of things happen i...
DAVID BUSH
The students get a card and they can show it at different businesses and they get a discount.
CODY JONES
The academy program allows for consistency with teaching students. Without the academy, a student wo...
LORETTA PATTERSON
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE
They still have to have vision, the ability to undertake an ambitious project, to leverage resources...
JOSH LERNER
This would be a great partnership that we're very open to. It's an opportunity for students to work ...
CHRISTINE SEITZ
Latino students are the same as everyone else, but they may have come from a school system that is d...
LOURDES SALAZAR
If we demand higher standards from our students, we obviously have to give them the resources to mee...
DENNIS TOMPKINS
I have the ability to help the organization go further and help students more.
JAMES THORPE
We have some schools where 50% to 70% of students failed the exam, ... How denying diplomas to 60% t...
KAREN BASS
This is more about a different way of trying to measure progress than trying to favor any group of s...
HANNA SKANDERA
Small schools are a wonderful thing for students and for community involvement in the schools. An el...
DAVID KERN
When we started the school, we faced the question, 'How can we help our high school students. We dec...
BILL HOOD
There was a lot of different subject matter to choose from, and the students selected some really ni...
ELIZABETH ZGORECKI
At small high schools, there often aren't enough students interested in a particular course to make ...
CHERYL VEDOE
I have great hope that the approach offered by Breaking Ranks in the Middle will help the high schoo...
CHAD P. WICK
The students get to see their lives are perhaps not so different from those of the seniors when they...
CAROL LANE
It's exclusively SFA people. We're relying heavily on students. We have faculty and staff that are i...
MICHAEL PRESTON
When kids are looking at schools and judging what schools they might go to ... it's sort of a compet...
BARRY BROWN
We could have kids that have graduated in here or kids from other schools, ... This will help teache...
ERIC PORTER
That campus will really put us into a different type of learning environment for our students,
BENNIE OSBURN
We need to create a niche different from the NCAA. The NAIA is about students first, about their edu...
JIMMY CARR
The needs of ninth graders are different from those of sophomores, juniors and seniors that is exclu...
KAREN BERRY
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school di...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
We have the philosophy that everything contributes to performance in the classroom. The buses that g...
DEBORAH URODA
What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The university is really interested in helping our students find a college to call home.
FRANK MURPHY
Although classes are not back in session this year at the time of the concert, we do have students w...
JENNIFER WOLF
There's a misconception that our students won't go to college. We offer everything other schools off...
MARGARET SCHOELLES
I can't speak for the board, but I think their intention is — because 1,600 students would be quite...
JAN LANTZ
We really have the guidance counselors encourage students to take the courses that help them prepare...
LORI WHITE
It's like a little United Nations. It's really great. Students from different backgrounds and cultur...
ZENY SCHMIDT
We're training the students how to use the techniques themselves, and now it's blossomed into studen...
JOSE PEP ROA
What is neat about C-CAP is that they challenge the students to perform their culinary skills, inter...
DEVON WELLS
Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. ...
CATHY ANDREEN
As soon as we opened the Career Lab we had a different group of students coming in and really start ...
DENNIS REYNOLDS
I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because the...
JACK HANDY
Overall they had been doing very well, especially as they've been around longer the students continu...
BARBARA DOWNEY
Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their commu...
GARY LOCKE
We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. ...
CINDY WILLIAMS
We will work one on one with students. We'll have college access advisers in the schools full time.
HEATHER SANDS
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES
They're good students ... and good role models around the school.
BOB CURRAN
School violence is a serious problem that endangers students, interferes with learning and harms our...
JOE BACA
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagu...
FRANK PRESS
Studies have shown that high; unmet need is a barrier to college for many low-income students. The b...
LUKE SWARTHOUT
We have deserving students who are kept out of college or have difficulty completing their degrees b...
GASTON CAPERTON
The focus of this program is students with disabilities and how these schools have met or exceeded s...
KARLA CARRUTHERS
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first ti...
BARBARA MIKULSKI
Students participating at the LADWP Science Bowl are among the best high school science scholars in ...
GEORGE ROFAIL
Because we think financial aid is an important component for low income students that might not othe...
DIANE LINDNER
The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if ...
JOANNE ARGYRES
I think Ghana is not ready for online learning now since access to internet is huge problem for most...
RAYMOND OBENG
Schools identify the students that need the help. But it takes an awful lot of money to satisfy all ...
FRANK DEROSA
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local t...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
The wonderful thing about this campus is because we have such a diverse student body in terms of rep...
ELLEN ANDERSON
Internships have always been important to college students, but never more than now.
KATIE RILEY
These technological amenities will get students ready to step out of college and right into the busi...
JUANITA HAYES
Although there are more students from low-income families with college aspirations and more first-ge...
GASTON CAPERTON
It's just a way to get out, welcome students back. It's also good for people in the community to get...
JAN MILLS
It's about the friendships and how we've gained respect on how they (the exchange students) are rais...
CAROL SALVADOR
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared...
MAGIC JOHNSON
There ought to be questions about whether state standards are preparing students for the challenges ...
DARIA HALL
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for firs...
BARBARA MIKULSKI
I think it's important for students to talk to graduate schools to figure out how their schools util...
MATT FIDLER
We didn't want them to disrupt the learning process for the rest of the students who decided to hand...
GLORIA GRAVILLE
Students are the stockholders in the university system and deserve to have their vote count on issue...
JAMES TOUCHTON
Increasing the Pell-Grant is critical as students face higher college costs across the country. As c...
LUKE SWARTHOUT
One of the things we'll be looking at is how many students need to be accommodated before the new hi...
PAUL ALDERETE
One of the things we'll be looking at is how many students need to be accommodated before the new hi...
SUPERINTENDENT PAUL ALDERETE
Perception is gradually turning around, the U.S. is rethinking its attitude towards international st...
MICHAEL DICKSON
I just think there is always a huge need to help our students going to college.
DARBY HECTOR
The reasoning behind the bill was to help move students [through college] in a timely manner.
LAURA KNAPEREK

More Jonathan Grayer

I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief...
JONATHAN GRAYER
The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa...
JONATHAN HICKMAN
I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur...
JONATHAN KRISEL
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
JONATHAN ROSS
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo...
JONATHAN TUCKER
I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor...
JONATHAN EVISON
One person's car is another person's scenery.
JONATHAN IVE
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t...
JONATHAN FRID
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...
JONATHAN SACKS
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
JONATHAN MABERRY
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I...
JONATHAN TOEWS
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started...
JONATHAN TOEWS
I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U...
JONATHAN SACKS
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ...
JONATHAN SACKS
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur...
JONATHAN VILMA
The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen...
JONATHAN GALASSI
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT
During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE
I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE
Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real...
JONATHAN HAIDT
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa...
JONATHAN CARROLL
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about...
JONATHAN SACKS
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL
May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE
Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD
The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD
Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD
Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD
Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch...
JONATHAN STROUD
Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...
JONATHAN STROUD
I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD
Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ...
JONATHAN STROUD
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...
JONATHAN STROUD
Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ...
JONATHAN STROUD
God rest her soul and may she never walk at night
JONATHAN STROUD
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...
JONATHAN STROUD
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
JONATHAN STROUD
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m...
JONATHAN STROUD
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer...
JONATHAN STROUD
Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD
More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD
Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by...
JONATHAN KOZOL
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re...
JONATHAN RABAN
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JONATHAN KOZOL
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER
For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN
But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT
So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT