People Quotes

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

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

H. L. Mencken

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish Prove

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro.

Charles De Gaulle

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edgar Watson Howe

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.

Edward Keating

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - Quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2 - 3 - 03

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Vernon Coope

I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

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

Joan Baez

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

Joe Moore

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinge

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.

Shimon Peres