Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire." — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation,… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share
