The breath of popular applause. [ Herrick ]
Fame is the breath of popular applause. [ Herrick ]
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. [ Yogi Berra ]
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. [ Proverb ]
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right. [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ]
The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were. [ Quarles ]
O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? [ Cowper ]
Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular governments are destroyed. [ Ames ]
Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. [ Chamfort ]
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [ Goethe ]
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. [ Beaconsfield ]
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]
It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. [ Hume ]
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]
Health - the silliest word in our language, and one knows the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]