People Quotes

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Franois Maurice Mitterrand

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

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

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

Sir Francis Bacon

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

Adolf Hitle

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

William Hazlitt

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

H. L. Mencken

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Clive Staples Lewis

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Peter Brougham

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Will Rogers

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

Andrew A. Rooney

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

Fran Lebowitz

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that is too bad.

Kurt Cobain

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex.

Cicero

Successful people breed success.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality