"In school, you're taught a lesson and then……" — Tom Bodett

"In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

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22 Quotes by Tom Bodett

Tom Bodett has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to…
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take,…
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live…
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to…
For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and…
I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to…
I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is -…
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license…
People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want.…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to… — Chinua Achebe
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by… — Saint Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if… — Saint Augustine
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach

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