People Quotes
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
Progress is not created by contented people.Frank Tyge
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.Edgar Watson Howe
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.John Berge
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.Lao Tzu
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.Edwin Percy Whipple
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.Alfred A. Montapert
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.Robert Frost
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.Max Beerbohm
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.Plato, The Republic
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.William Allen White
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.Jack Kerouac, On the Road
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.Mandell Creighton
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.John Lah
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.Robert Anthony
