People - Quotes
People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Everybody`s always talking about people breaking into houses [...]; but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
The wish of two people who truly love one another is not to live together but to die together.
You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.
It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.