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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

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

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