Mary Jane Ward famous quotes

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
-- Mary Jane Ward

#Citizens #Institutions #Committed

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.
-- Mary Jane Ward

#Snakes #Long #Insane

But you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.
-- Mary Jane Ward

#Stars #Thinking #Looks

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
-- Mary Jane Ward

#Sick #Locks #Illness

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.
-- Mary Jane Ward

#Writing #Pay #Compliment

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.

In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.