"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."
-John Updike
wisdomView Quote
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
-John Updike
wisdomView Quote
"Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."
-John Updike
truthView Quote
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
-John Updike
teacherView Quote
"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."
-John Updike
sportsView Quote
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
-John Updike
societyView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
-Jet Li
artView Quote
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
-Ludwig Erhard
artView Quote
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
-Theodore Bikel
artView Quote
"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
-Robert Carlyle
artView Quote
"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
-Karl Kraus
artView Quote
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
-Ben Okri
artView Quote