A Quote by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Quote Topics

Bar Bench Executive Hell Legislature Men Office Room Scaffold School Sends Them

Quote Author

Thomas Jordan Jarvis
American - Politician
January 18, 1836 - June 17, 1915

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

Anthony de Mello

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

Lew Wasserman

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.

Billy Sunday

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

Virginia Woolf

You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

Joan Rivers

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

David Garrick

The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

Thomas Deloney

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Miguel de Cervantes

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

Edward M. Lerner

'Room' was a very dark movie, but 'Wonder' is a fun, light movie that sends out an important message. There is a big difference.

Jacob Tremblay

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'