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Alexander Chase
23 quotes
“To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in: Everett McKinley Dirksen (1981), The World book complete word power library - Volume 1. p. 297
“One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, (1986), p.
“The movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in: Douglas R. Suisman ( 1989), Los Angeles boulevard: eight x-rays of the body public. p. 39
“More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer Care about religion.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in: Michael Otto Ekpenyong (2005). Beware of Gods p. 93
“To the average cigarette ]]smoker]] the world is his ashtray.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in: Roseane M. Santos (2007), Coffee: The Revolutionary Drink for Pleasure and Health. p. 131
“A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in Fayek S. Hourani: Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings, Xlibris Corporation, 1 October 2012, p. 112
“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander Chase, cited in Fayek S. Hourani: Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings, Xlibris Corporation, 1 October 2012, p. 113
“Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Rhoda Thomas Tripp (1970), The International Thesaurus of Quotations, p. 517
“Music has charms to soothe a savage breast — but not the unmusical one.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Sandra Lee Stuart (1980), Who won what when: the record book of winners. p. 353
“Gods are born and die, but the atom endures.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jefferson Hane Weaver et al. (1987), The World of Physics: The Einstein universe and the Bohr atom.
“When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Anna Hart (1988) Expert systems: an introduction for managers. p. 111.
“To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmill to which the rest of us feel chained incites our envy, and therefore our fury. We do not suffer him to go unpunished.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Peter Potter (1988), All about death, p. 41
“People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jonathon Green (1988), Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century, p. 175
“The banalities of a great man pass for wit.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jonathon Green (1988), Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century, p. 176
“For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jonathon Green (1988), Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century, p. 176
“The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jonathon Green (1988), Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century, p. 176
“There are few successful adults who were not at first successful children.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2000 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in: Wesley Douglass Camp (1989), What a Piece of Work is Man!: Camp's Unfamiliar Quotations from 2000 B.C. to the Present, p. 124
“Walking in space, man has never looked more puny or more significant.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2000 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Wesley Douglass Camp (1989), What a Piece of Work is Man!: Camp's Unfamiliar Quotations from 2000 B.C. to the Present, p. 139
“The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2000 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Wesley Douglass Camp (1989), What a Piece of Work is Man!: Camp's Unfamiliar Quotations from 2000 B.C. to the Present, p. 397
“Memory is the thing you forget with.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: David Samuel (1999). Memory: How We Use It, Lose It, and Can Improve it. p. 71
“Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: William L. Ippolito (2003), Leaving on a Jet Plane. p. 153
“The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Mark Robert Rank (2004), One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All.
“Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Larry Chang (ed,) (2006). Wisdom for the Soul. p. 348