People Quotes
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Jacques Prvert
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.Sir Francis Bacon
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.Henry Clay
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.Caligula
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.Fred Allen
The only completely consistent people are the dead.Aldous Huxley
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.Benjamin Franklin
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.Marchioness Townsend
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.Robertson Davies
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.Nancy Asto
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.Edward Gibbon
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
