Top 53 Schoolmaster's Quotes

#1. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Henry Adams

Schoolmaster's Quotes #38648
#2. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What

Herman Melville

Schoolmaster's Quotes #46090
#3. Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Antiphanes

Schoolmaster's Quotes #55905
#4. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Schoolmaster's Quotes #87583
#5. Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Erich Maria Remarque

Schoolmaster's Quotes #117656
#6. A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Henry George

Schoolmaster's Quotes #203135
#7. The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.

Washington Irving

Schoolmaster's Quotes #229783
#8. A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

Henry Ward Beecher

Schoolmaster's Quotes #250167
#9. 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 treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

Graham Chapman

Schoolmaster's Quotes #301789
#10. Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Horace

Schoolmaster's Quotes #525128
#11. I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

John Burns

Schoolmaster's Quotes #553281
#12. The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71

Vladimir Nabokov

Schoolmaster's Quotes #580991
#13. You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Bertrand Russell

Schoolmaster's Quotes #594293
#14. A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

Janice Y.K. Lee

Schoolmaster's Quotes #649602
#15. The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

Randall Terry

Schoolmaster's Quotes #656072
#16. I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Schoolmaster's Quotes #671255
#17. 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

Schoolmaster's Quotes #683224
#18. It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Nelson Mandela

Schoolmaster's Quotes #710495
#19. 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 isolated savage.

H.G.Wells

Schoolmaster's Quotes #729434
#20. Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

Franz Kafka

Schoolmaster's Quotes #732895
#21. 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 even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look ...
THEN UNREAD.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Schoolmaster's Quotes #807739
#22. How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Woodrow Wilson

Schoolmaster's Quotes #884705
#23. I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

Henry David Thoreau

Schoolmaster's Quotes #891576
#24. Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Schoolmaster's Quotes #902642
#25. Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions.

Orison Swett Marden

Schoolmaster's Quotes #914639
#26. The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Walter Scott

Schoolmaster's Quotes #932767
#27. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

Charles Dickens

Schoolmaster's Quotes #959616
#28. One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Thomas Paine

Schoolmaster's Quotes #968715
#29. The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

Adoniram Judson

Schoolmaster's Quotes #982927
#30. A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Walter Bagehot

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1006603
#31. 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

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1026121
#32. we go to the bedroom now? I don't mind if you tell me off there, either. In fact, if you play the bossy schoolmaster I think that would bode well for our relationship.

Susan Mac Nicol

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1112523
#33. In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a stone:'
"Aye? ... What did he learn?"
"Not to ask questions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1116604
#34. There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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#35. There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

James Russell Lowell

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1193696
#36. ...the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.

Gabriel Chevallier

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1197970
#37. Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.

Joe Abercrombie

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1227284
#38. The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

Edward Alsworth Ross

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1232630
#39. The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Thomas Carlyle

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1257497
#40. One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1272851
#41. Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Jacques Ranciere

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1293310
#42. 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 hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster
that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.

Henry Adams

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1332213
#43. When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far," and this was often the case.

Oliver Sacks

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1334525
#44. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1377447
#45. I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,
habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1393283
#46. The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Phillis Wheatley

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1432109
#47. 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

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1438786
#48. 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 life.

John Calvin

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1499470
#49. The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

H.G.Wells

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1529035
#50. Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

Harold Nicolson

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1571691
#51. 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 difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

William Makepeace Thackeray

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1572365
#52. God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Walter Scott

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1688193
#53. Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

Henry Sidgwick

Schoolmaster's Quotes #1796146

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