Schoolmaster Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek. — E. V. Lucas
John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would… — Graham Chapman
Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than… — Charles Spurgeon
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were… — Henry Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life… — Henry Adams
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. — Thomas Paine
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,… — George Bernard Shaw
Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And… — Pseudonymous Bosch
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first… — Robert Green Ingersoll
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an… — H.G. Wells
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his… — Stephen Fry
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their… — John Calvin
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. — H. L. Mencken
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. — Antiphanes
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns

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