People Quotes

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Karl Kraus

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.

Caligula

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Steven Wright

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Proverbs 12: 15

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - - - None of which is easy.

Princess Anne

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Fred Allen

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcom S. Forbes

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

Author Unknown

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

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

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.

Rudyard Kipling

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert