"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'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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