People Quotes
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.Latin Prove
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.Stanley Marcus
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.Walter Ke
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.Haniel Long
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
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.Sir Francis Bacon
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.Ira Erwin
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.Mary Schmich
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.John Stuart Mill
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.Mahatma Ghandi
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.Marchioness Townsend
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.Dane Helmers
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.Art Linklette
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.Larry Wilde
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.Sam Malone, Cheers
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.Edward Gibbon
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.Johann von Goethe
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
