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

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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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