The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (405 page)

Skinner, B. F.
1904–90

1
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Contingencies of Reinforcement
(1969) ch. 9

2
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

New Scientist
21 May 1964

 
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Slovo, Gillian
1952–

1
In most families it is the children who leave home. In mine it was the parents.
of her anti-apartheid activist parents, Joe Slovo and Ruth First

Every Secret Thing
(1997)

 
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Smart, Christopher
1722–71

1
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.

Jubilate Agno
(
c.
1758–63) Fragment B, l. 695

2
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.

Jubilate Agno
(
c.
1758–63) Fragment B, l. 721

3
Beauteous the garden's umbrage mild,
Walk, water, meditated wild,
And all the bloomy beds.

A Song to David
(1763) st. 81

4
Glorious the northern lights astream;
Glorious the song, when God's the theme;
Glorious the thunder's roar.

A Song to David
(1763) st. 85

5
And now the matchless deed's achieved,
Determined, dared, and done.

A Song to David
(1763) st. 95

 
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Smiles, Samuel
1812–1904

1
We each day dig our graves with our teeth.

Duty
(1880) ch. 16

2
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Self-Help
(1859) ch. 1

 
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Smith, Adam
1723–90

1
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Wealth of Nations
(1776) bk. 1, ch. 10, pt. 2

2
The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Wealth of Nations
(1776) bk. 1, ch. 11

3
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

Wealth of Nations
(1776) bk. 4, ch. 7, pt. 3

4
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Wealth of Nations
(1776) bk. 4, ch. 8

5
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Wealth of Nations
(1776) bk. 5, ch. 2

 
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Smith, Alfred Emanuel
1873–1944

1
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

speech in Albany, 27 June 1933, in
New York Times
28 June 1933

 
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