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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

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

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)

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