Wilmarth S Lewis Famous Quotes
"The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man"
Wilmarth S Lewis Quotations
"There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try."
Henry Bromel
"The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition."
Dwight Morrow
It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke
"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."
Albert Einstein
"Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes."
Henry M Wriston
"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil."
Lao Tzu
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
"You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love."
Saint Augustine