People Quotes

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylo

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Robert M. Pirsig

It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.

Victor Borge

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

Neil Gaiman

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

Malcom S. Forbes

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audrey Hepburn

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Lord Chesterfield

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Kate Chopin

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

Author Unknown

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Dave Barry

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton