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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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