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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- 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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

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

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