Before I box up my notebooks.

From my favorite, Hebrew class:

"What you're learning will come in handy far and wide... when you go into your prayer closet with your prayer shawl, and want to read some Hebrew..."

Dr. Gault: "You're just dying to ask a question."
Student: "Absolutely not!"
Dr. Gault: "Oh, everything is as clear as mud for you?"
Student: "Absolutely not! I'm simply absorbing it all."

"But if you want to (just for your own personal sanctification) go memorize all this, you're welcome to do so."

"Questions? Predicate, substantive... why I went to bed last night and didn't watch the Broncos win?"

"You're right--the I.D. badge of a word is NEVER a letter that's not there."

"Is that like the attendant-circumstance function of the adverbial participle in Greek?"

                                                      .... and I just have to add, for you younger and more sheltered types, that such dreadful creatures as the above-mention function do exist. (Thankfully, I think most of them are currently confined to seminaries.)


And of course, the profound quotes from English Lit.:

"South Carolina has a lot of things that are backward... but the drivers' manuel is really funky!"

"God looks down from heaven and says, 'I gave you brains--use them!'"

"Let me tell you a joke to get started--this is serious."

"I notice the times on your facebook posts, guys. I see that you're up at 01:50 in the morning--so it's no wonder that noon on Monday you're a bunch of... slugs..."