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

• No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

  

  Yanni
  • Matter
  • Happens
  • Loses

• 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'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

  

  Willard Wigan
  • Hair
  • Mad
  • Professors

• 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

• Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Labor

• I do believe in love; it's wonderful – especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Love

• As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Implementation

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Loses
  • Professors
  • Faculty