"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching." ― Baltasar Gracian Topic(s): Teacher More From Baltasar Gracian "Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one." "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong." "It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it." More In Teacher "Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake."― George Farquhar "Education is a precondition to survival in America today."― Marian Wright Edelman "Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."― Thornton Wilder