Sunday, December 22, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Thorstein Veblen

« All quotes from this author
 

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
--
p.51

 
Thorstein Veblen

» Thorstein Veblen - all quotes »



Tags: Thorstein Veblen Quotes, Authors starting by V


Similar quotes

 

Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine?
Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

 
Jonas Salk
 

I have always thought that there are two brands of conservatives: the kind who follow the money and conservatives of principle. Paul is a conservative of principle. He's held his ground, and he is an honest man.

 
Ron Paul
 

The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding: the one a sheepish bashfulness, and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others.

 
John Locke
 

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

 
George Bernard Shaw
 

This loving person is a person who abhors waste — waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

 
Leo Buscaglia
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact