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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 30251 |
| QUOTATION: | Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?—No—no, ‘tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Washington Irving (1783–1859), U.S. author. A History of New York, bk. 3, ch. 2 (1809). Written under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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