Quote

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Margaret Halsey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Race
Rodents
Great
Disadvantage
Humiliating
Disadvantages
Rats
Competitors
Definition
Definitions

More quotes by Margaret Halsey

Image
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
Margaret Halsey
Image
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
Margaret Halsey
Image
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Margaret Halsey
Image
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
Image
It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
Margaret Halsey
Image
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
Image
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Margaret Halsey