Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 61
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 61
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American politician
As quoted in FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Part I. Généralités (Generalities), Chapter I. Prolégomènes (Prolegomena).
Treatise on Elegant Life (1830)
Original: (fr) Or les trois classes d'être créés par les mœurs sont :
L'homme qui travaille ;
L'homme qui pense ;
L'homme qui ne fait rien.
Julie Burchill (1959) British writer
Attributed to Julie Burchill in: Austin Imoru (2008) The Woman and Her Sexuality. p. 109
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) American theologian and writer
" Wanted, a Statesman! http://books.google.com/books?id=oSNYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+politician%22+%22is+a+man+who+thinks+of+the+next+election+while+the+statesman+thinks+of+the+next+generation%22&pg=PA644#v=onepage", Old and New magazine, December 1870.
“A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations