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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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