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"He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man." »Burmese Proverb
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"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." »Sren Kierkegaard
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"If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get." »John Watson
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"I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'" »Winston Churchill
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"Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
8 of a paragraph." »Søren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." »John Dryden
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"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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"America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature." »Arnold Bennett
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"The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom." »Omar Khayyam
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined." »John Green
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"Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')" »David Glasgow Farragut
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"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people." »Louis Adamic
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"History is full of surprises." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"A full cup must be carried steadily." »English Proverb
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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." »Charles De Gaulle
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"I want freedom for the full expression on my personality." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst." »Thomas Hardy
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Life is full of obstacle illusions." »Grant Frazier
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"A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered." »C. S. Lewis
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