Quotes of Harvard - somelinesforyou

“ You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame. ”

- Stephen Fry

“ I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. ”

- William F. Buckley Jr.

“ If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. ”

- John Updike

“ Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon. ”

- Lincoln Kirstein

“ It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. ”

- Tina Fey

“ Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a type of weevil. ”

- Dave Barry

“ I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. ”

- Frank Sinatra

“ You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much. ”

- Unknown

“ Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ”

- Roy Blount Jr.

“ It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. ”

- Sir John Harvey

“ It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history. ”

- Henry Ford

“ If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. ”

- Charles Morgan

“ Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations six if one went to Harvard. ”

- Edgar R. Fiedler

“ Today, the Harvard-educated proprietor of a boutique brothel on the East Side would be photographed attending first nights and would discuss her next book on television chat shows with respectful psychoanalysts who would treat her, not without justification, as a professional colleague. ”

- Joan O’Sullivan

“ I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ”

- John Nash

“ When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization. ”

- Mervyn A. King

“ Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? ”

- John Updike
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