A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

-Conant,James Bryant
Quoted in Time, 29 Sep1986.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in  Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work† You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

-Melville, Herman
Moby Dick, ch.24.

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
  'The Dismal Science', in The Smart Set,  Jun.

My father used to say, 'Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Harvard.'

-Moore, Marianne Craig
  Observations,'Silence'.