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~ There are no ordinary people. ~ C.S. Lewis
~ Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ If you want something done, ask a busy person. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. ~ Albert Camus ~ There are too many people, and too few human beings. ~ Robert Zend ~ Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ~ Evan Esar ~ A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ~ Christopher Morley ~ I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. ~ Desmond Morris ~ When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~ John Steinbeck ~ Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah didn't miss the boat. ~ Mark Twain ~ There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. ~ Robert Byrne ~ An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last.~ Winston Churchill ~ I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. ~ Jane Austen ~ Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick. ~ Robert Brault ~ Every man has his follies, and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. ~ Josh Billings ~ The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. ~ William Butler Yeats ~ There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains. ~ John Jay Chapman ~ People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. ~ Mark Twain ~ People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. ~ Oliver Goldsmith ~ The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ~ Ambrose Bierce ~ Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ~ Robert Brault ~ We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. ~ Stephen Hawking ~ When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~ Abraham J. Heschel ~The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. ~ William Clayton ~ People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ~ Charles F. Kettering ~ Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: 'I do not know'. ~ Andre Maurois ~ Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. ~ Anonymous ~ When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything. ~ Eric Satie ~ I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. ~ E. V. Lucas |
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~ It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~ David Ormsby Gore
~ Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. ~ George Bernard Shaw
~ Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. ~ George Bernard Shaw