Quotes about people

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us, ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

George Bernard Shaw

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Aristotle

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.

Jim Rohn

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Giovanni Boccaccio

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Pearl Bailey

It's the people who try to be clever who never are, the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Gilbert Parker

The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so.

Josh Billings

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Etty Hillesum

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

Eugene Ionesco

Banality is a symptom of non communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

Eugene Ionesco

We're living longer and we want to enjoy the time we have. People don't want to give up anything.

Arthur Cox

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Frank Herbert

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet, the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

E. B. White

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

George Moore

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

E. B. White

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Robert Kiyosaki

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Frank Herbert

Everybody wants to be somebody, nobody wants to grow.

George Kurz

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them, when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Eugene Delacroix

All decent people live beyond their incomes, those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's, a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Robert Kiyosaki

The Inverse Midas Touch is the power possessed by some unfortunate beings today to turn everything they touch to shit.

Hugh Rawson

Born with a withered arm, the Kaiser continually tried to demonstrate his manliness. One of his hobbies was chopping down whole plantations of trees with a special axe.

Roger Boyes

A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.

George Jessel

You may not be one but you certainly look like one, which is even worse.

Lord Queensberry

It's not nice to joke about fat people, but they can't catch you.

Marsha Warfield

There are some sick people in this world.

Phillip C. McGraw

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader, occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

Man does not speak because he thinks, he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Octavio Paz

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln