Best has-beens & stupid Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Ralph Kiner

“P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.”

Ifs Knows Writing Has Beens Funny Courses Stupid Let Me

Author:Boyle Roche

“Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.”

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.”

Has Beens Effort Cases Stupid Intelligent Currents Usual Idle Diligent Output

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.”

Has Beens Made Stupid Objects Intellectual Property Senses Replaced Private Property

Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”