People Quotes

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.

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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

Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

John Henry Newman

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Tom Lehre

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.

Clyde Kluckhohn

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.

Richard Needham

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - - - None of which is easy.

Princess Anne

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

Alexander Pope

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Unknown

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Robert Frost

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

H. Allen Smith

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Woody Allen

The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

People are more easily led than driven.

David Harold Fink

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

You have to let people challenge your ideas.

Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Victor Borge