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Alexander Chase Quotes


An American journalist
(1926 - )


A man's home is his wife's castle.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
[Forgiveness]

All generalizations are false, including this one.

He who considers his work beneath him will be above doing it well.
[Work]

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Memory is the thing you forget with.
[Memory]

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
[Forgiveness]

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
[Greatness]

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
[Forgiveness]

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
[Success]

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
[Change]

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
[Forgiveness]

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
[Forgiveness]

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
[Guilt]