Quotes about People
Show me a man or woman alone and I`ll show you a saint. Give me two and they`ll fall in love. Give me three and they`ll invent the charming thing we call 'society'.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won`t.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.
Ours is a world where people don`t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.