Quotes tagged ‘Social Status’

(3 total)

“All men without distinction, are allured by immediate advantages. Great minds alone are excited by distant good. So long as wisdom in its projects, calculates upon wisdom or relies upon it's own strength, it forms none by chimerical schemes—and runs the risk of making itself the laughter of the worl…”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“Erotomania has very little to do with sex. It's a romantic or spiritual connection that erotomanics crave. Victims of the delusion tend to be from a higher social status and have done very little to stimulate or encourage such a belief.”

— Sharon Lee Watson, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.de