| people have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
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Howe, Edgar WatsonEra:
1853 |
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| (The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. -- James A. Garfield |
| Author:
Garfield, James A.Era:
1831 |
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| Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. -- John Adams |
| Author:
Adams, JohnEra:
1735 |
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| As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. -- François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. -- Robert Browning |
| Author:
Browning, RobertEra:
1812 |
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| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France |
| Author:
France, AnatoleEra:
1844 |
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| It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them. -- Kin Hubbard |
| Author:
Hubbard, KinEra:
1868 |
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the people, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
| Author:
Howe, Edgar WatsonEra:
1853 |
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| You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance. -- W. Somerset Maugham |
| Author:
Maugham, W. SomersetEra:
1874 |
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| The safety of the people shall be the highest law. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. -- François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. -- E. B. White |
| Author:
White, E. B.Era:
1899 |
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| Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom. -- J. Paul Getty |
| Author:
Getty, J. PaulEra:
1892 |
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| Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| Author:
Holmes Jr., Oliver WendellEra:
1841 |
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| Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star. -- Fred Allen |
| Author:
Allen, FredEra:
1894 |
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| It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not. -- Jean La Bruyere |
| Author:
La Bruyere, JeanEra:
1645 |
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| Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author:
Swift, JonathanEra:
1667 |
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| Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author:
Burke, EdmundEra:
1729 |
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| Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The great part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author:
Joubert, JosephEra:
1754 |
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| people demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
| Author:
Nietzsche, FriedrichEra:
1844 |
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| Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. -- Will Rogers |
| Author:
Rogers, WillEra:
1879 |
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| The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. -- Walter Bagehot |
| Author:
Bagehot, WalterEra:
1826 |
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| All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. -- Adlai E. Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, AdlaiEra:
1900 |
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| Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. -- Sir Ralph Richardson |
| Author:
Richardson, Sir RalphEra:
1902 |
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| Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. -- Gustave Le Bon |
| Author:
Le Bon, GustaveEra:
1841 |
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| O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. -- William Feather |
| Author:
Feather, WilliamEra:
1888 |
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| Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. -- Philip D. Stanhope |
| Author:
Stanhope, Philip D.Era:
1584 |
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| Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. -- George Santayana |
| Author:
Santayana, GeorgeEra:
1863 |
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| Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Only the shallow know themselves. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. -- Joseph B. Priestley |
| Author:
Priestley, JosephEra:
1733 |
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| Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author:
Webster, DanielEra:
1782 |
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| What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. -- Leszczynski Stanislaus |
| Author:
Stanislaus, LeszczynskiEra:
1677 |
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| The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. -- Thomas Hardy |
| Author:
Hardy, ThomasEra:
1840 |
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