Portable Dorothy Parker Quotes & Sayings

Why don't I give you a preview of what I intend to do in order to wake you up. — Samantha Young

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. — Francis Bacon

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power. — Hilaire Belloc

And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star. — T. S. Eliot

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. — James S. Coleman