Yip Harburg Quotes

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.