I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with.
John Irving | People, Mankind
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Relationship, People – Edmund Burke
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde – Principle, People
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
William Hazlitt – People
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Goethe – Absence, People
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin – People, Weather
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw – People
I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher – People
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Marcus Tulius Cicero – People
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Abraham Lincoln – People
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – People
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, ‘"There you are’" and those who say, "Here I am".
Abigail Van Buren – People
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Abraham Lincoln – People
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt – People
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
