People Quotes

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene

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

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

Neil Gaiman

When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Lady Asto

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

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Arthur Baldwin

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.

Arthur McNallan

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berge

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

Leo Rosten

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

James A. Autry

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.

Jeff Greenfield

Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Adolf Hitle

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Eden Phillpotts

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Agatha Christie

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren Bennis