“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
--Marlene Dietrich
An English major’s idea of fun reading:
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
-Austin Phelps
"In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia, you have to explain what a writer is."
--Geoffrey Cotrell
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"What we become depends on what we read after the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
--Thomas Carlyle
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
--Mark Twain
