Popularity Quotes - Page 10

• A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.334, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Example, Teeth, Way

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Judgment, Obscure, Court

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.167, 谷月社

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• A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Popular Vote, Sovereign, Vote

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Newspapers, Trinity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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• Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Criticism, Path, Peers

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• A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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• Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

  Leo Howard

  Mean, People, Giving

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• My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, People, Depends

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

  Andy Richter

  Nice, People, Translate

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, tv.avclub.com. May 16, 2001.

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• A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

  Charles James

  Hate, Acceptance, Sight

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• The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

  T. D. Jakes

  Contentment, Plagiarism, Lows

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

  Rachel Hamilton

  Caring, Quality, Kind

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Soccer, Sports, Heart

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• Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

  Kin Hubbard

  Long, Guests, Aids

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• There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Please, Enjoyed, Ifs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Book, Philosophical, Years

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• The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

  Aristotle

  Men, Host, He Man

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Unhappy

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• He that has many friends, has no friends.

  Aesop

  No Friends, Many Friends

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Blow, Men, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Ideas, Numbers, Long

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• In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

  Shirley Temple

  Movie, Distance, Personality

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