"The Jews and Arabs should sit down and settle their differences like good Christians."
US Politician and diplomat
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all it's pupils."
Hector Berlioz
"I'm returning this note to you, instead of your paper, because it (your paper) presently occupies the bottom of my bird cage."
Providence College
"The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west."
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students"
"If you weren't my teacher, I'd think you just deleted all my files."
UCB CS student, to an instructor who had typed "rm -f *" to get rid of a file named "-f" on a Unix system.
"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."
"I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it."
Quotedb: The Quotations Database
