The Circular File

Love is no assignment for cowards. - Ovid

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

I go to school the youth to learn the future. - Robert Frost

My life feels like a test I didn't study for. - Unknown

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. - Eartha Kitt

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. - Benjamin Franklin

Your best self shows up only when you are put to an impossible test. - Unknown

I will study and prepare myself… and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

Success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary. - Unknown

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. - George Bernard Shaw

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now. - Groucho Marx

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. - John Wooden

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up. - Vicki Lawrence

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. - Marty Allen

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late. - Seth Godin

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. - Jason Alexander

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

If religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth. - Ravi Zacharias

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. - E. Joseph Cossman

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them. - Lyman Abbott

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly! - Ivanka Trump

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

It is the studying you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. - Henry L. Doherty

If you study a subject every day, for one hour a day, for five days a week - in five years you will become an expert in that area. - Earl Nightingale

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall

I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown

Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. - Apothegm of Narda

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. - Alan Bleasdale

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. - Andre Gide

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. - Ricky Williams

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country. - Kilburn Hall