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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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