Thursday, November 26, 2009

Words of Wisdom on a Poster in Korean Classrooms

1. There is no royal road to learning.
2. Rome was not built in a day.
3. Heaven helps those who help themselves.
4. A bad workman always blames his tools.
5. Time and tide wait for no man.
6. Never put off til tomorrow what can be done today.
7. Make haste slowly.
8. Slow but steady wins the race.
9. Better late than never.
10. Time is money.
11. They that govern the most make the least noise.
12. Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.
13. Be wise worldly, not worldly wise.
14. Love and a cough can not be hid.
15. Good words are worth much and cost little.
16. Time is the rider that breaks youth.
17. One father is more than 100 school masters.
18. Life is half spent before we know what it is.
19. We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine.
20. It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
21. The mond is always the dupe of the heart.
22. I look upon the world as my parish.
23. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
24. To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
25. The computer is only a fast idiot; it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool of man.
26. One man with courage makes a majority.
27. Television has a real problem. They have no page 2.
28. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
29. If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
30. Only the person with faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
31. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
32. Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
33. Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
34. A friend in power is a friend lost.
35. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
36. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

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