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~ Reasonable people can differ. ~ Proverb
~ We are all alike on the inside. ~ Mark Twain ~ Always let losers have their words. ~ Francis Bacon ~ It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ~ Aeschylus ~ The human race is governed by its imagination. ~ Napoleon ~ People are more easily led than driven.~ David Harold Fink ~ The more one judges, the less one loves. ~ Honoré de Balzac ~ People are either born hosts or born guests. ~ Max Beerbohm ~ A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. ~ Napoleon ~ People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. ~ Aesop ~ Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~ Yugoslav Proverb ~ The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills. ~ Edward Abbey ~ We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. ~ Anthony De Mello ~ There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. ~ G.K. Chesterton ~ You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. ~ W.H. Auden ~ People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~ Epictetus ~ It is humans that make truth great, not truth that makes humans great. ~ Confucius ~ It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at. ~ French Proverb ~ People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes ~ In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. ~ Arthur Koestler ~ When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ~ Albert Einstein ~ People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. ~ Robert Half ~ The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.~ T.H. Huxley ~ Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change. ~ Frederica Mathewes-Green ~ Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. ~ Paul Valery ~ Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. ~ Herbert Spencer ~ People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses. ~ Vietnamese Proverb ~ The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. ~ Samuel Butler ~ People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true. ~ Bertrand Russell ~ People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader, occasionally in the right direction.~ Alexander Chase ~ Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. ~ Mark Goulston ~ Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~ William James ~ Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. ~ Mark Twain ~ It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place. ~ Albert Einstein ~ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin ~ The horizon of many people is a circle with zero radius which they call their point of view. ~ Albert Einstein ~ The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. ~ Aristotle ~ Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ~ General George S. Patton ~ You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~ Joseph E. Levine ~ Many are stubborn in persuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. ~ Byron J. Langenfeld ~ Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. ~ Plato ~ Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~ Adlai Stevenson ~ It's frightening that some people literally prefer ignorance because it's comforting and easier to comprehend. ~ Paul LaClair ~ Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us about ourselves, nor half the bad they say of others. ~ Jonathan Petit Senn ~ The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past. ~ Robertson Davies ~ There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. ~ Tom Clancy ~ People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. ~ Russell Baker ~ A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. ~ Vernon Howard ~ There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. ~ G.K. Chesterton ~ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ~ Alice Walker ~ People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes. ~ Wilbur N. Nesbit |
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~ Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
~ All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
~ If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. ~ Michael Korda
~ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.~ Blaise Pascal
~ People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
~ My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~ Indira Gandhi
~ All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
~ If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. ~ Michael Korda
~ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.~ Blaise Pascal
~ People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
~ My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~ Indira Gandhi