Ilgenfritz Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. — David Lodge

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!] — Joseph Addison

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have. — Ned Vizzini

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. — Horace

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago. — Thomas Hood