People Quotes

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Jane Austen

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Kelle

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

People forget how fast you did a job - But they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.

Herbert Spence

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Robert Henri

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore Harold White

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marchioness Townsend

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

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

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

John M. Richardson, Jr.

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie