Alfred Polgar Quotes

Austria, Writer
October 17, 1873 – April, 24, 1955.

Alfred Polgar was an Austrian-born journalist, born into an assimilated Jewish family, one of the most renowned intellectuals of the Vienna coffeehouses.

Also known as Journalist

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Alfred Polgar
It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Alfred Polgar
- Never
- Born
- Luck
Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

Alfred Polgar
- Work
- To Do
- Anymore
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

Alfred Polgar
- Fall
- Ground
- Stone
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Alfred Polgar
- Life
- Time
- Weather
The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Alfred Polgar