Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish proverb

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch.

Rita Mae Brown

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.

T. S. Eliot

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them.

Ann Landers

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Ann Landers

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Charles F. Kettering

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Hermann Hesse

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham J. Heschel

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Catherine Ponder

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Milan Kundera

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

Henry David Thoreau

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Marian Wright Edelman

All the disconnected people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

David Gayson

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Marian Anderson

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughes

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Gillian Anderson

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

Voltaire

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy De Maupassant

There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.

Geoffrey Fisher

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Hugh Sidey

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Agatha Christie

You served the people shamefully. The people thought they were electing a mayor.

Harold A. Ackerman

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Bob Edwards

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

Lois Wyse

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse De Lamartine

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Noel Coward

People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses.

Vietnamese Proverb

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

John B. Priestly

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 have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

Malcolm S. Forbes

The people in power are the people who are constantly able to discover new and relevant knowledge, which is really tied to the capacity to learn.

Joseph Badaracco

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Abraham Lincoln

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

James Whistler

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

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'

Keri Russell

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

August Strindberg

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us about ourselves, nor half the bad they say of others.

Jonathan Petit Senn

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Charles De Lint

People are looking for an answer, and I know that Answer is Jesus Christ.

Eva Burrows

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

Scott Adams

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Robert Frost

Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

George Bernard Shaw

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

Tom Krause

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

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

Herm Albright

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Clifford Stoll

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

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 very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.

Oscar Wilde

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.

Oscar Wilde

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Oscar Wilde

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde

But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

Oscar Wilde

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Anne Frank

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Anne Frank

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Anne Frank

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Chuck Palahniuk

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Chuck Palahniuk

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair.

Chuck Palahniuk

It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Chuck Palahniuk

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

Those who have got into the habit of consuming music for free are very hard to shift. And frankly it's an argument for increasing the scale of court cases because at the moment, people still don't think it's going to be them.

John F. Kennedy

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

I think this is something that people will welcome who are not computer-literate. We hope this helps them move checking out their computer further up on the to-do list.

John F. Kennedy

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Thomas Jefferson

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Thomas Jefferson

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

Scott Adams

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Scott Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

Lots of people who complained about us recieving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war--for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. Wouldn't you?

John Lennon

Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon

I pitty people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's the best they're going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

John Lennon

Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching.

Scott Adams

I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed...Thats the best they are gonna feel.

Frank Sinatra

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Scott Adams

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Robert Frost

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Bob Dylan

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Anita Roddick

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

People show their character by what they laugh at.

German Proverb

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefor, who are we to condemn anybody?

Mother Teresa

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

M. C. Escher

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Jack Welch

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

M. C. Escher

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao tzu

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Zig Ziglar

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Lao tzu

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Jack Welch

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Zig Ziglar

The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they le.

Jack Welch

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao tzu

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Peter McWilliams

I'm one of those regular weird people.

Janis Joplin

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

Saint Teresa Of Avila

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

Aldous Huxley

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Sir George Savile

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent van Gogh

Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Storm Jameson

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

Matt Groening

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Stephen Hawking

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt