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

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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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