Browse Professor Quotes

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
—Walter Matthau
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
—Bob Dole
Marty: Calvin? Wh... Why do you keep calling me Calvin? Lorraine: Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.
—Back to the Future (1985)
Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
—The Matrix (1999)
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
—Airplane! 1980
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
—Beryl Pfizer
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
—David Letterman
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
—Bill Cosby
It ain't over 'till it's over.
—Yogi Berra
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
—Hellen Keller
I wish they would only take me as I am.
—Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
—Lao-Tzu
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
—Anais Nin
Do all things with love.
—Og Mandino
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
—Og Mandino
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
—Plato
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
—Bertrand Russell
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
—Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
—Erich Segal
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
—William Shakespeare
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
—Anna Louise Strong
There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
—Helen Hayes
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
—Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
—David Grayson
There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
—Helen Hayes
Where there is love there is life.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
—Erich Fromm
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
—Erich Fromm
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
—Albert Ellis
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
—Joseph Conrad
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Love builds bridges where there are none.
—R. H. Delaney
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
—Rob Cella
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
—Willa Cather
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
—Leo Buscaglia
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
—Smiley Blanton
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
—La Bruyere
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.
—William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra
Ambition is the ice in the lake of emotion
—Waking The Dead
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
—Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
—Christian Cardell Corbet, 1997
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
—Michelangelo
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
—James Baldwin
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
—Anon
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
—Lee Iacocca
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
—Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Arts
The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
—Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
—Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
—Steve Martin
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
—Malcolm X
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
—Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
—Albert Einstein
A zebra does not change its spots.
—Al Gore
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
—Ingrid Bergman
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
—Mark Twain
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
—Bernard Meltzer
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
—Oscar Wilde
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.
—Unknown
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.--Jim Ryun
—Jim Ryun
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
—Josh Billings
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
—Sid Caesar
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
—Buddha
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
—Lou Erickso
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
—Winston Churchill
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
—Dan Quayle
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
—John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
—Terry Pratchett
Always drink upstream from the herd.
—Will Rogers
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
—Albert Einstein
The road to success is always under construction.
—Unknown
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
—Bill Cosby
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
—Anonymous
The suburbs are where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them.
—Alfred E. Neuman
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
—Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes)
Even peanutbutter won't stick to the roof of your mouth if you eat it responsibly...
—Professor Jolt, History 101: History of The Daily Jolt
Ambition is the ice in the lake of emotion.
—Anonymous
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
—George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
This, of course, is only useful for scattering AM radio waves off a charged elephant.
—Anonymous
I bet you're wondering where I'm going with this. Well, so am I.
—Anonymous
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
—Steve Martin
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

—Mel Brooks
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
—George Carlin
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
—Homer Simpson
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
—Bill Gates
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso
I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t... I mean s-m-A-r-t.
—Homer Simpson
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
—Unknown
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
—Winston Churchill
It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.
—Proverb
Let he who has not sinned, cast the first stone
—The Bible
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing-and then they marry him.
Cher
—Professor Jolt, History 101: History of The Daily Jolt
They always say that age is just a number but the experince that comes along with it is not just a word!!!.
—Professor Jolt, History 101: History of The Daily Jolt
The days are long, but yet they go bye so fast, live life for all that you can
—Professor Jolt, History 101: History of The Daily Jolt

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