I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- 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

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

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

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

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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