Thirds Quotes - Page 2

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

Nice, Memorable, Patriotic

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

"Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

Arthur Eddington

Science, People, Understanding

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If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

Pope Francis

Father, Giving, Justice

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I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Henry Ward Beecher

Reading, Mind, Twenties

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I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Two, Numbers

Walden ch. 6 (1854)

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A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Harold Laski

Class, Mind, Materials

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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

Fran Lebowitz

War, Book, School

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Aristotle

Character, Mind, Three

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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

Victor Hugo

Drama, Epic, History

Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Joan Rivers

Play, Tragedy, Twists

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I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

Margaret Thatcher

Two, Government, Politics

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Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Mason Cooley

Poverty, Tin, World

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In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Coffee, Mean, Vegetables

Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “House and Home Papers”, p.230, Applewood Books

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Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

Desiderius Erasmus

Wise, Men, Greek

Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out.
The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you--
The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence
The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank

John Dos Passos

Army, Winning, Snakes

John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey.

Robert Benchley

Two, Giving, Monkeys

Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.282, Pickle Partners Publishing

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Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank.

Allen Tate

Vocabulary, Mortality, Hermes

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.11, Macmillan

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Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.

Spike Milligan

Morning, Class, Tourists

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To put one brick upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.

Philip Larkin

Work, Add, Bricks

Philip Larkin, “To Put One Brick Upon Another”

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I would have drunk a lot of Pinot Grigio if I'd lost after leading 5-2 in the third.

Martina Navratilova

Drunk, Drink, Lost

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Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Past, Ideas, Feelings

Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

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We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.

Louise J. Kaplan

Maturity, Order, Years

Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.

Florence King

Rivers, Feminist, Feminism

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