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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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

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

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