Quote by William F. Buckley Jr

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory…

— William F. Buckley

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Here’s an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people’s lives are governed by telephone numbers?”

— Douglas Adams

“He claimed to have attended “Harvard in New York”! Why not in Cambridge? Allston? Boston?”

— Lana M. Rochel

“Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.”

— Avi Steinberg

“What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all…

— Louis Brandeis

“On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law.”

— Chaim Potok

“Let me note, finally, that most of the research for this book was done in the libraries of Harvard University, the size of whose…

— Alfie Kohn

Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard…

— Elizabeth Hardwick