Zling Pen Quotes

#1. To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

B.K.S. Iyengar

#2. Nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Elizabeth Bowen

#3. There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Umberto Eco

#4. And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

Valerie Simpson

#5. I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

Kenneth Clark

#6. Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Giambattista Vico

#7. That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari

#8. Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Catherine Marshall

#9. Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

Napoleon Hill

#10. Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

Amy Lowell

#11. If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

Ramana Maharshi

#13. The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy