Quotes
Quotes about Class
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise; Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
