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

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

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

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

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

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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