People Quotes
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.William Hazlitt
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.Gore Vidal
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefelle
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.Max Beerbohm
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.Lawana Blackwell
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.Walter Savage Lando
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.R. H. Grant
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.Max Percy
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.Anonymous
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.Peggy Lee
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.Pauline Frederick
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.Susan Sontag
I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.Oscar Levant
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leepe
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.Lao Tse
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.Euell Gibbons
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.Stephen Butler Leacock
