Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
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.
Fly, dotard, fly!
With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd!
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n,
That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
Are yet two Romans living such as these?
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep.