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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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