Words of Wisdom

Mr Brock likes to think he is quite wise.  Well he has been teaching for over 20 years!!!! Here are some of the quotes and sayings you might hear him say if you were in his class.  (Show these to the parents.)

Quotes and Sayings

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Never miss a good chance to close your mouth and listen to someone else.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Don’t let yourself get diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

If you speak with a forked tongue, avoid kissing balloons.

If you lend someone $20 and you never see them again, it was probably money well spent.

‘Pushing your Luck’ is not a form of exercise!

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you!

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

A conclusion should not be the thing you write just because you got tired of thinking.

All generalisations are false.  Including this one.

Always try to be modest and secretly be proud of it.

If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

Anything worth taking seriously is worth having fun with.

Experience is something you don’t have until just after you need it.

Generally speaking, you aren’t learning very much when your mouth is moving.

Hard work has a future payoff.  Laziness pays off now.

Everyone has a photographic memory although some people don’t have any film.

It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Good judgement comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

Ever stop to thing and then forget to start again?

Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.

Plan to be spontaneous, tomorrow.

Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.

Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

The early bird may get the worm, but it is the second mouse who gets the cheese!

The shortest distance between two points will sometimes still be under construction.

Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.

If you sneeze without a handkerchief, you take matters into your own hands.

If you can’t repair the brakes, make the horn louder.

There are three types of people; those who can count and those who can’t.

Never mess up an apology with an excuse.

Time is what stops everything from happening at once.

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism but to steal from many is research.

Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

War does not determine who is right.  War determines who is left.

No one seems to listen until you make a mistake.

What is a free gift?  Aren’t all gifts free?

Only passengers who have window seats will ever need to use the toilet.

You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

People who think logically are a nice contrast to the real world.

Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty , and the pig like s it.

The trouble with life is you’re halfway through it before you realise it is a ‘do it yourself’ thing.

Superglue is forever!

No matter how much jelly you put into a swimming pool, walking on water is still impossible!

Always be polite especially to people bigger and more important than you are.

Computers are great, but there is no prize for finishing the internet!

Listen and Silent are spelled with the same letters!

If you are not sure what some of these mean, ask someone wiser than you!