Professor Porter

Famous quotes containing the words professor and/or porter:

“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.”
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)