People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
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