Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Simeon Strunsky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Simeon Strunsky.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Simeon Strunsky

Simeon Strunsky was a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for the New York Times for more than two decades.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. — © Simeon Strunsky
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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