Quotes of Prevalence - somelinesforyou

“ I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. ”

- Bette Midler

“ You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody. ”

- Herbert Bayard Swope

“ The shortest and most direct road to popularity is for a man to be the same that he wishes to be taken for. ”

- Socrates

“ That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Popularity is power. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Popularity is a fickle jade. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ If Barbie is so popular, then why do we buy all her freinds? ”

- Unknown

“ The presidency is more than a popularity contest. ”

- Al Gore

“ I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. ”

- Al Gore

“ The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ That would really send my popularity to the depths. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ Generalities don't count and won't help you in football. ”

- Knute Rockne

“ As soon as there is life, there is danger. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ Popularity is not leadership. ”

- Richard Marcinko

“ Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Avoid popularity if you would have peace. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I will not change just to court popularity. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ”

- Lord Mansfield

“ Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? ”

- Philip Larkin

“ Everything popular is wrong. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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