Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I can grouse about the food, and the C.O. and anything I blame please. And that’s more than you with your Gestapo and your storm troopers and your Aryan bourgeois. Ahhh, nuts. What’s the good of talking to you. You can’t even begin to understand democracy. We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.”
—Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)

“I understand the phrase “Honor the Women” all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)