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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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