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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

"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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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