If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
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
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
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
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
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
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
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
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 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
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)
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
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
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
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