Max Beerbohm Quotes

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Max Beerbohm

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• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Blind

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Decisions

• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Movie
  • Kind

• I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • People
  • Done
  • Know

• Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • World
  • Ocean
  • Fish

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Long
  • Home
  • She

• It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Breathe
  • Possible

• When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Act

• I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Parents
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Kids
  • Feel
  • Better

• A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Country
  • Death
  • Potential

• I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Hair

• I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

  

  Charlie Bewley

• Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera was a real co-operative team. My first instrument was the guitar, Tempera played piano and keyboards, themes were composed sometimes by one, sometimes by the other, sometimes together.

  

  Fabio Frizzi
  • Real
  • Together
  • Team

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Wonder
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Think
  • Try
  • Islam

• Independence is a very subjective assessment.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Very
  • Independence

• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

  

  Max Beerbohm