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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." »Thomas Huxley
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"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to." »Hazrat Inayat Khan
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"Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth." »Goldie Hawn
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"Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal" »The National, Paris, 1850
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"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle." »Heinrich Heine
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." »George Eliot
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." »Marcel Marceau
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"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz
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"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." »Homer Simpson
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"Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either." »Herki Siider
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"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears." »Gene Oliver
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." »Winston Churchill
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie
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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism." »North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
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"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." »Dan Rather
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law
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"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." »Unknown
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"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." »John McEnroe
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"Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law
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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." »Aldous Huxley
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"It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well." »Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005
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"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time." »Author Unknown
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