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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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