People Quotes
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
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.Logan Pearsall Smith
In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.Unknown
People who know the least always argue the most.Author Unknown
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.Jane Austen, Emma
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson
USA Today has come out with a new survey - Apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.Dave Letterman
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.Dwight Morrow
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.Barbara DeAngelis
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.Douglas Adams
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
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro.Charles De Gaulle
I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half - way, the almost, the just - About, the in - Between.Ayn Rand
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.Rebecca West
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.John Greenleaf Whittie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore Harold White
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.Alan Corenk
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.Adam Smith
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.Robert Byrne
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.Kevin R. Hutson
