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"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler—and less trouble."
— Mark Twain
"I never did very well in math—I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
— Calvin Trillin
"My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers."
— Woody Allen
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
— Louis-Hector Berlioz
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
— Bill Gates
"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."
— Gracie Allen
"You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day."
— Jay Mohr
"As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools."
— Unknown
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"We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen."
— Frank Rizzo
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
— Dan Quayle
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"The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post."
— William Lyon Phelps
"I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs."
— Don Herold
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
— Flannery O'Connor
"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do [things], then YOU DESERVE IT."
— Frank Zappa
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"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student."
— Henry Youngman
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
— Minna Thomas Antrim
"The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one."
— Unknown
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