[PW] ? Quotations from Williams Alumni (Quotation Query #649)

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

I love to browse through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 
It may be lazy of me, but I like to taste the plums of 
many authors whose full puddings I cannot digest.

[Part of his introduction at Slate, a daily Web magazine] 

Herb Stein's Unfamiliar Quotations On money, madness, and making mistakes. 
 by Herbert Stein
16 May 1997
 http://www.slate.com/id/2561/

"Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote: 
For an article I am writing on famous quotations by Williams College alumni, I would welcome suggestions of any quotations by any of the following people:

George Steinbrenner
William J. Bennett
G. Stanley Hall
Fay Vincent
Dominick Dunne
Jay McInerney
Herbert Stein
John Frankenheimer
Sterling A. Brown
James MacGregor Burns
Alvin Kernan
John Sayles
Frederick Wiseman

Fred Shapiro


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