Accounts Quote by J. Frank Dobie

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

— J. Frank Dobie

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

Luck is being ready for the chance.

— J. Frank Dobie

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

— J. Frank Dobie

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

— J. Frank Dobie

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

— J. Frank Dobie

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

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

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

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

— J. Frank Dobie

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

— J. Frank Dobie

“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.”

— J. Frank Dobie