People Quotes

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.
Steve Pershing
Abraham lincoln - most people are about as happy as they make up...
Ernest hemingway - if two people love each other, there can be no...
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.
James A. Autry
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
John Quinton
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
George Washington
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Lord Chesterfield
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Lady Asto
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
Lord Chesterfield
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
Bertrand Russell
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
Jean Ke
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Sandra Swinney
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03
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
People change and forget to tell eachother.
Lillian Hellman
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Herbert V. Prochnow
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Prove
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
Louis Celine
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)