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

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

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

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

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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