Dr. M. (so called in order to keep Dr. Macey anonymous) is forever piping up with the cutest/smartest/weirdest statements in class. Here is part two of an ongoing catalogue of his best little nuggets:
“Have you seen the wonderful Latin translation of ‘Cat in the Hat’?”
“You won’t catch Vergil rhyming.”
“Are we all straining to be literate?”
“Boy, the Romans loved dates.”
“To speak Latin in the ancient world was to be human.”
“Can you be heroic and ineffective at the same time?”
“How can you be interested in people you’ve hypothesized? Actually, sometimes they’re the most interesting.”
“English is the poor body that got buried under Norman armor and Latin books. English then clambered out of the wreckage and said, “I’m still here, I just sound different.”
“This was a generic snake. Well, not that generic because it talks to people.”
“That’s for your enjoyment, or for recycling.”
“Authoritarianism has never gone over well in England. Just ask Charles I.”
“This has been an extraordinary day, and not in the good way.”
” ‘I’ is about the slenderest word you can make.”
“Prose will make you happy if the poetry didn’t.”
“You spontaneously speak well, not because you swallowed a grammar book, but because you think clearly.”
“You all look very studious. We should have a photographer come in and take photos for the website.”
“It’ll be kind of exciting, like a picnic. We’ll have cookies and move to another room. We’ll make that warm, fuzzy feeling last all week.”
“If you see IT, tell them we’re killing trees because they didn’t fix our speakers.”
“There’s plenty to be scared of in life, but you can’t be scared of everything.”
“Would you prefer to be amused in the dark or in the light?”
“You were going to think and listen before, but now we’re going to imagine.”
“Lake Ontario–the least great of the Great Lakes.”
“There will be a Korean movie on Friday night in CB120. I will also be doing magic, you know, to lure people in.”
“A really mushy banana is worse than a crunchy banana.”
