“It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson [the director of The Lord of the Rings films] or is making a point they have never heard of.”
Terry Pratchett
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood”
Irish Sayings
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.”
William Drummond
“When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert”
The Talmud
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr”
Muhammad
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
William Shakespeare
