Quotes About Status

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

It is a sin to judge any man by his post

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

If the imitation is always trying to be something, and cares desperately for its status, the original is really something, but does not care.

In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.

POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out—Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL

One must reach the point of "not caring two straws about his own status" before he can wish wholly for God's kingdom, not his own, to be established.' Death to ambition as such will be the beginning of new life. Above all, the part of a man which puts success first must be humiliated if a man is ever to be really free.

money SHOULDN'T determine your social status AT ALL, most of us are still in highschool, most of us live with our parents. Not everyone is PUT in a good position. If you have a job, I have so much RESPECT for you. Your working and actually trying to better yourself.

In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

Emotion in the heart is like poison in a substance, like fire latent in reeds-one ought to be aware of this. Therefore, as superior people do their work, they do not feel exalted when given status, do not feel aggrandized when honored, do not pay attention when treated familiarly, do not become suspicious when treated with aloofness, and cannot be abased. Thus they cannot be moved by emotions.

Wall Street," said a sadder but wiser Henry Blodget, "is its own world… what matters most is your place in that world, not what the rest of the world thinks of you.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.