That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream,
the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter,
than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- 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
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
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
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
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
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
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
"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
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
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
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
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
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)
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
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
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
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