Browse Professor Quotes

Now don't you see how the lines in this poem flow like rainbows? Can't you just feel the waves?
—Karen Holmberg, WR 241: intro to poetry
You should switch your major to math. Not as dangerous. Civil engineers wear hard-hat, but if concrete beam fall on head... you die! Chemistry majors, have to make bad-smelling chemicals and if make mistake, blow-up in face and you die! Math, not dangerous at all, unless allergic to chalk dust.
—Math 306 (a class most pre-engineering students take): Larry Chen (Chinese prof with thick accent)
And that's how you get a buzz folks!
—Professor Ahern, BB450
I have a mind like a steel trap--rusty and illegal in 37 states.
—Stimpy
24 hours in a day........24 beers in a case........coincidence?
—Anonymous
A flush is beter than a full house
—sign on a plumbers truck
80% of the final will be on the one lecture you missed and the only book you neglected to read.
—Law of Tests
An American is someone who protests against a new power plant, then goes home to flip on the lights, turn up the air conditioner, open the refrigerator door, plug in the coffee maker, and sits down to see if the TV cameras had caught him protesting.
—Wendell Trogdon
In today's stock market, 3 bonds are being issued:
*Lewinsky Bond: has no maturity
*Bush Bond: has no interest
*Clinton Bond: has no principle
—Submitted by Joan H.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
—Mark Twain
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
—Woody Allen
Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?
—Homer Simpson
I love fun house mirrors! Ha ha! This one makes me look real wide and fat. Oh oh. This isn't a funhouse mirror.
—Garfield
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
—Harry Truman
There's no fool like an old fool...you can't beat experience!
—Jacob Braude
In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks; they're not very good.
—Wendy Liebman (OSU Mom's Weekend)
Energizer bunny arrested--charged with battery.
—Anonymous
I lost some face today, when I picked my nose.
—Anonymous
Education is what survives when what has been learned is forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner
A little vagueness goes a long way in any sucessful business.
—Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
Bart, with $10,000 we'd be millionaires, we could buy all those useful things like....love!
—Homer Simpson
Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bear arms!
—Anonymous
If I wanted smoke blown up my pipe hole, I'd be at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of tube.
—Don Brodka
If the brain was so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
—Lyall Watson
A cult is a religion with no political power.
—Tom Wolfe
If you want to get rid of stinking odors in the kitchen, stop cooking.
—Erma Bombeck
Did you know that rain is the sound of angels flushing?
—Al Bundi
Nobody notices when things go right.
—Zimmerman
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to say there.
—John Wooden
A miser grows rich from seeming poor, a extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
—William Shakespeare
Support bacteria--they're the only culture some people have.
—Anonymous
I'm very loyal in a relationship. Any relationship. When I go out with my Mom, I don't look at other Moms. I don't go, Oooh, I wonder what her Macaroni & Cheese tastes like.
—Garry Shandling
I married Ms. Wright. I just didn't know her first name was Always.
—Anonymous
Almost everthing you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
—Gandhi
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
—Garrison
I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.
—Adam Swipple
The Road to Easy Street is hard to find.
—Allison Audrey
Drink till she's cute, but stop before the wedding.
—Anonymous
Just get one of those inflatable women, but make sure it's a women though, because one time I...heeh!
—Clancy Wiggum
Couldn't repair you're brakes, so I made your horn louder.
—Dad
Any person over age 65 who drinks, always says the doctor recommended it.
—Al Bundi
Love is blind, but marriage is an eye-opener.
—Anonymous
Actually the first fast-food franchise in the Soviet Union was supposed to be Taco Bell, but it was called off when Soviet officials heard the new Taco Bell slogan, RUN FOR THE BORDER!
—Jay Leno
I'm going into the backseat with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.
—Homer Simpson
Annual drugs deaths: 'legal' drugs overdoses(558,000); illegal drug overdoses(5,200). What is the government protecting us from anyway?
—William Turnbow
The greater the lie, the greater the chance it will be believed.
—Adolph Hitler
That's messier than a dogs breakfast.
—John Moore, FOR 441: Silviculture
The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so I try sleeping in.
—Tom Stoppard
Laughing stock: Cattle with a sense of humor.
—Anonymous
Boycott shampoo. Demand the real poo!
—Richard Bell
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
—Ralph Freeman
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..........
—Anonymous
Excuses are like asses, everyones got one and they all stink.
—Susan Santog
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
—Theodore Davis
If everthing seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something.
—Vernon Hunt
Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.
—Jerry Seinfeld
If you choke on a smurf, what color do you turn?
—William Turner
Californians are not without their faults.
—Carnegie
Good night to spend with your family, but avoid arguments with your mate's new lover.
—Horoscope for Cancer
Sure there are dishonest men in local government, but there are dishonest men in National Government too.
—Richard Nixon
I like the word 'indolence.' It makes my laziness seem classy.
—Bern Williams
Why do terrorists want to destroy the US? Why don't they just sit back and wait for the Bush economic plan?
—Jay Leno
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
—Abraham Lincoln
I look at kissing like this-kissing is fine if you like it, but it's a free country and you shouldn't be forced to do it.
—Trey (Age 8)
Support bacteria -they're the only culture some people have.
—Anonymous
This is my 'depressed stance.' When you're depressed, it makes a nig difference on how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
—Bullwinkle J. Moose