People Quotes

After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers.

Joe Moore

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

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)

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferbe

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Louis Vermeil

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

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Joan Baez

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

Adolph Hitle

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

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

Abraham Lincoln

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.

Morrow Mayo

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe Luce

The conception of two people living together for twenty - Five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert