People Quotes

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Stanley Marcus

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.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

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

Leo Rosten

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Proverbs 12: 15

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

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Henry Ward Beeche

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Henry David Thoreau

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Georges Jacques Danton, to his executione

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

John Ruskin

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

Jean Caldwell

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W. C. Fields

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitle

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

People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Thomas C. Haliburton

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

Victor Borge

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

Thomas Jefferson

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.

American Indian Prove

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

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