Alan Dundes Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Funny Quotes

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

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I spoke to my dad, and he said it took close to 90 dollars to raise me. But that was me and my sister, and my sister moved out when she was 16, so sometimes it can knock you up to triple digits to raise a kid.

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

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Absence - that common cure of love.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

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... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

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God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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