People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ... by Kent Keith

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
by Kent Keith

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

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

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

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

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

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

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

The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

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

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

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

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

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

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

"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

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous

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

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain

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

All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- 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

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

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

Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

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

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