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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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