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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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