Famous quotes containing the words middle class, middle, class and/or speakers:
“Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody elses house to earn money? Youre working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? Youre middle class.”
—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)
“Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“But you must know the class of sweet womenwho are always so happy to declare they have all the rights they want; they are perfectly willing to let their husbands vote for themMare and always have been numerous, though it is an occasion for thankfulness that they are becoming less so.”
—Eliza Mother Stewart (18161908)
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)