People Quotes

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Mary Schmich

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

H. R. Schaffe

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

I let the American people down.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Baron Henry Peter Brougham

People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Eric Hoffe

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

Robert A. Heinlein

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

Tench Coxe

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Douglas Adams

Hell is other people.

Jean - Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Saki

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Australian Aboriginal Elde

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Arthur Baldwin

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.

Albert Einstein

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton