Simeon Strunsky Famous Quotes
"If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people."
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky Quotations
"When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with'"
Rita Rudner
"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
Orison Swett Marden
"All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism."
B J Gupta
"Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there."
Andrew Mercer
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
La Rochefoucauld
"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that."
Donald J Adams
"If you can't be funny, be interesting."
Harold Ross
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J K Rowling
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Samuel Johnson
"The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form."
Kabbalah