Who can wrestle against Sleep? — Yet is that giant very gentleness.
Graduation Quotes
Two of the most popular graduation lines are flagged. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is a paraphrase of John Dewey, not a quotation. The one about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is credited to Einstein and flagged as misattributed.
The page is assembled from the pages on education, success, the future, dreams and learning. It has no graduation speeches in it, but it does have a lot of quotes that get used in them. If you are writing a speech, use the sourced entries; the label will tell you which is which.
Learn from the past. Or repeat its horrors, in imagination, endlessly.
Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.
Dreams of the summer night!
Tell her, her lover keeps
Watch! while in slumbers light
She sleeps.
"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.