Quotes with wasps

  • The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

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  • Laurence Sterne 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Bill Condon Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Camille Paglia The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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