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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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