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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

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

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