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

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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