Eponymously Named Quotes & Sayings

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality. — Johan Huizinga

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia. — Bob Dylan

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by. — Willi Smith

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. — Thomas Paine

And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin. — Voltaire

Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for.
[Jack kisses Rose passionately]
Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward.
[Jack kisses the Doctor the same way] — Russell T. Davies

In his anti-Darwinian book ... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story ... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless. — Stephen Jay Gould