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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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