I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown