Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it most people will think it wrong.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can neverMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]