People Quotes

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Home

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu

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

Malcom S. Forbes

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Karl Kraus

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.

John Whitehead

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

Two people kissing always look like fish.

Andy Warhol

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Ka

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

Lee Iacocca

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Shannon Mille

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

Cicero

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.

Jeff Greenfield