People Quotes

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.

Gunnar Myrdal

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 people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Donald G. Smith

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Ka

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Louis Vermeil

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

Kahlil Gibran

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

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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 is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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)

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

Tom Morris

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collie

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dagobert D. Runes

When someone does something good, applaud You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

H. L. Mencken

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

Fred Allen

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

General Smedley Butle

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Gerald W. Grummet