Strasbourg University Quotes & Sayings

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. — Henry David Thoreau

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. — Abdurrahman Wahid

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification ... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. — Edgar Allan Poe

A crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant? — John Elder Robison

You've got the right of it. My wife. . . my duchess, she must be beyond reproach. We can never be in the gossips' stews. — Eva Devon

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder. — Hartley Coleridge

As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats. — Erik Larson

It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there. — Hannah Kearney