Words from my elders and betters

"Le monde est plein de gens qui ne sont pas plus sage [que la grenouille]. Tout bourgeois veut batir comme les grands seigneurs, tout petit prince a des ambassadeurs, tout marquis veut avoir des pages."

-Jean de La Fontaine, "La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que la boeuf"

("The world is full of people who are not any wiser than the frog. Every middle-class man wants to build like his masters, every young prince has his ambassadors, every marquis wants to have his own pageboy."

-" ", "The Frog Who Wanted to Be As Big As The Cow")

"He as slow as a white man in slippers."

-"The Wire"

"You'll do better on the GRE by putting aside your feelings about real education and surrendering yourself to the strange logic of the standardized test."

-The Princeton Review, "Cracking the GRE 2010"

"What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?"

-Paul Auster, City of Glass

"L'existence precede l'essence."

-Jean-Paul Sartre

"Notice that on the second round of elimination we plugged in a weird number that we usually avoid. That's how we found out what would always be true."

-The Princeton Review