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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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