Stephen Fry Quotes

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Habit
  • Professors
  • Simply

• Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Drinking
  • Students
  • Faculty

• The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Ideas
  • Loses
  • Awful

• To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Willing
  • Loses
  • Sight

• Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Mother
  • Mean
  • Loses

• We lose all that time which we might employ better.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Might

• One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Loses
  • Laughs

• If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Money
  • Loses
  • Convince

• I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • Winning
  • Loses

• Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Health
  • Winning
  • Wise

• [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Influences
  • Faculty

• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.

  

  Epictetus
  • Stupid
  • Choice
  • Improve

• He who hoards much loses much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Loses
  • Hoards

• I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Years
  • Said
  • Cry

• Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Loses
  • Hinduism
  • Temples

• I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Book
  • Firsts

• It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Fun
  • Games
  • Loses

• I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • God
  • Judging
  • Possess

• A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Group
  • Loses
  • Committee

• It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Time
  • Use
  • Loses

• When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.

  

  Norm Phelps
  • Compassion
  • Habits
  • Acts

• There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Poetry
  • Connection
  • Exist

• Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

  

  Stephen Fry
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