"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy (1947-), paraphrasing Mark Twain
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
"Men are like steel. when they lose their temper, they lose their worth."
- Chuck Norris (1940-)
"Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
- Proverb
"99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name."
- Unknown
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die."
- Klingon Proverb, Star Trek
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
- Proverb
"If you lose your temper, you’ve lost the argument."
- Proverb
Education
"Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin
"Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research."
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
- Perelman
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok (1930-), Harvard University President
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
- John Ciardi (1916-1986)