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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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