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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

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

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

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

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

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

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

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

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

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

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

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