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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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