People Quotes
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.George Mathew Allen
The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.Child Age 15
Ninety - Nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.Thornton
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.Jean Ke
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.Frederick Nietzsche
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.Chinese Prove
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.Samuel Goldwyn
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
The Irish are a fair people - They never speak well of one anothe.Samuel Johnson
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leepe
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.Oscar Levant
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.Dave Letterman
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.Jean Ke
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
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
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.Agatha Christie
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.W. H. Auden
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)
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.Author Unknown
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
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.Dorothy Sayers
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.Sinclair Lewis
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.Polly Whitney
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
