“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”
“You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(...)”
“Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap!”
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
“For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind”