SCHOLAR

Related Subjects: Culture, Education, Knowledge, Learning, School, Study, Teacher, University

1. We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.—O. W. HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
   

3. Who robs a scholar, robs the public.—Proverb
   

4. Every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster.—Proverb
   

5. A scholar may be gulled thrice; a soldier but once.—Proverb
   

6. The classics have scarcely lost in absolute value as a voucher of scholastic respectability, since for this purpose it is only necessary that the scholar should be able to put in evidence some learning which is conventionally recognized as evidence of wasted time.—THORSTEIN VEBLEN, The Theory of the Leisure Class
   

7. Up! Up! my friend, and quit your books;
   Or surely you'll grow double;
   Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks;
   Why all this toil and trouble?—WORDSWORTH, The Tables Turned