Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as bryghtly as possible George Bernard Shaw

Some cause happiness wherever they go Oscar Wilde

They lived and laughed and loved and left James Joyce Finnegans Wake

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing but is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught Oscar Wilde