People Quotes
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.A. C. Benson
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.Victor Hugo
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.La Rochefoucauld
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.David H. Comins
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.Robertson Davies
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.Marya Mannes
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.Henry Van Dyke
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.Samuel Johnson
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
Determined people working together can do anything.Jim Casey, Founder of UPS
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.Edgar Watson Howe
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.Audrey Hepburn
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.Bob Dylan
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.Joe Moore
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.Johann von Goethe
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.Marcel Archard
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.Adolf Hitle
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
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.Adrian Mitchell
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
A hundred years for now? All new people.Anne Lamott
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.Albert Camus
