Quotes from Simeon Strunsky

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.