Quotes About People

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

I intimidate men.... People look a lot, but there's no line outside my door.

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

Oats, n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Geography is about maps, But biography is about chaps.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say, 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Superior people never make long visits.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through, if you are a crook or a martyr.