Class Quotes - Page 40

• Equality is a mortuary word.

  Christopher Fry

  Mortuary

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Two”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Men, He Man

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• When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pockets, Watches, Made

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Needs, Rich, Threatening

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Desperate, Accepting, Made

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

  John F. Kennedy

  Citizens, States, Masters

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.9, Best Books on

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• True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Eye, Wind, Would Be

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• The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Leadership, Knowing, Height

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• Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Home, Night, Cafes

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Philosophical, Race, Noble

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Names, Titles

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

  Jonathan Swift

  Titles, Firsts, Maxims

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

  Aristotle

  Men, Slave

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Life, Success, Eye

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Smart, Silly

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• Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Divorce, Men, Generosity

  "Louder and Funnier". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1932.

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• The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Two, Mad

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

  "Obama Mocks Socialist Attacks: 'I Shared My Toys'" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2008.

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• She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

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• .. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Children, Father

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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• You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

  Elvis Costello

  Fun, Mind, Pieces

  Song: Chemistry Class, Album: Armed Forces

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• I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Giving, Needs

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• My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Success, Strikes

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• I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Philosophy, Not Interested

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