good luck quotes for exams

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903



Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ~Victoria Secunda



You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. ~Frederick Douglass



When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711



The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ~Josh Billings



Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche



If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck



When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. ~Andy Rooney



Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. ~Mark Twain



If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel



The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis



There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright



The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~Author Unknown



You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb



There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch



Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ~Andrew V. Mason



But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. ~Francis Darwin



The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ~Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France



Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry



To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ~Geoffrey Boycott, 1989, how a cricket batsman feels when facing a fast bowler