Tr Emeritus Quotes

#1. If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?

Stuart Harris

#2. The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?

Edgar Lee Masters

#3. It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Jimmy Buffett

#4. [On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

Josephine De Beauharnais

#5. God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Sylvia Plath

#6. When you hear people tell you all the truth of the gospel, it does not necessarily mean that is what they are trusting.

Jim Wilson

#7. Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds.

Jenny Offill

#9. This is really bad to admit but, you know, when you put your name in Google to see how many credits it's got by your name or something. So you put in 'Dolly Wells' and suddenly it goes 'Dolly Wells Feet' or something.

Dolly Wells

#10. Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

Louis Pasteur

#11. Dude, are you kidding? You're kinda annoying, but you're probably the only person on Earth who always thinks about other people first. I don't care what shape you are ... you're totally my sister now.

Brian K. Vaughan

#12. Dear Reader, please forgive me if I have wasted your time.

Leonard Cohen

#13. I have lived the life I longed for in my heart. And it is beautiful there.

Samantha Bruce-Benjamin