Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Ciardi

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medic

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Leon Trotsky

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.

Jason Sudeikis

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Nancy Pelosi