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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

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

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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 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