People Quotes

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Latin Prove

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Proverbs 12: 15

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Unknown

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.

Eric J. Joiner, Jr.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Clive Staples Lewis

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Arthur Baldwin

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Italian Prove

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcom S. Forbes

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Jacques Prvert

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone