Quotations about People

by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:29 am

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He thatgoverns his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what ismost beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ~Susan Sontag

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; butyou must approach each man by the right door. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happyman inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ~NathanielHawthorne

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who arenot quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. ~WalterSavage Landor

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ~Winston Churchill

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure innoticing those of others. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them,you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moralindignation. ~W. Somerset Maugham

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. ~Albert Perry

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. ~Helen Rowland

In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into anautomobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotesgreat American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general aman who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokescigarettes, is somewhere in between. ~Lemony Snicket

People are like holidays. Do others see you as Christmas, or more like Tax Day? ~Terri Guillemets

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlightexpands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sinkflat and lank? ~Walt Whitman