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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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