The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
BEL KAUFMANLaughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
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“Let it be a challenge to you” means you’re stuck with it; “interpersonal relationships” is a fight between kids; “ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cops.
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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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If a teacher wants to know something why doesn’t she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she’s the teacher!
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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