funny quotes about teachers

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875



When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ~Vance Law



I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ~George Washington



Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. ~Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thanks, Bekah)



I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Erratum: an act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true; an error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book; plural is errata.



Don't needle the seamstress. ~Author Unknown



Retirement: World's longest coffee break. ~Author Unknown



Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. ~John A. Logan



Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield



Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb



Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers



So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"



Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson



People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. ~Richard Goodwin



The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people. ~William Ralph Inge, More Lay Thoughts of a Dean, 1931



The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. ~John J. Welsh



Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett



I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ~Gore Vidal



Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ~Thomas Carlyle