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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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