John Cabot Professor Quotes

As a lot of you will know seeing as about half of the people who read this are fellow Rockers, at Simon's Rock there is this wonderful thing called "Simon's Rock Professor Quotes''. It is a collection of quotations maintained and added to by students. Most professors don't know this exists, or if they do, don't know they are quoted on it. The quotations are hilarious, especially when taken out of context.

I am one of the students that posted there pretty regularly as I tend to write down the funny things my professors say. So out of habit I've written down what my professors here are saying. Having no other forum to share them in, I figured I would post them here and continue to do so as long as my professors are entertaining.

In Literature and Society in Rome the other day my professor (along with pointing out a lot of interesting parallels between the Roman foundation myth and the Old Testament) said a bunch of funny things. (I apologize if some of these are 'you had to be there' funny.)

"It seems like all famous people had fire coming out of their heads when they were young."

Not quite as funny, but I like it is:

"The greatest things come out of caves."

In Italian today we started to talk about food and such because she is planning a group trip to the market for one of our classes. When talking about why milk comes in such small containters she said

"We (Italians) don't drink milk. We drink wine."

And when on the topic of wine/drinking, she suggested we buy a bottle of expensive wine and enjoy is in moderation. Just a glass a day, that way you can taste it. (This is the best way to drink as Italians like to avoid getting drunk.) So after instructing us to buy the 20 euro bottle instead of the 4 euro junk, she said:

"And just a small glass a day. Otherwise you don't get drunk, you get poor."

These two are my more amusing teachers, so if I do happen to do this again I expect it to be more from them.

For anyone interested in the Simon's Rock Professor quotes, I think you can see them here.