People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
~Charles F. Kettering
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
~Dorothy Parker
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
~John Harrigan
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
~Dave Barry
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
~Helen Rowland
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am.
~Laura Schlessinger
Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.
~Albert Perry
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
~Oscar Wilde
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
~Antonio Porchia
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
~Abraham Lincoln
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
~George Bernard Shaw
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~Winston Churchill
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
~Fydor Dostoevsky
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.
~William Clayton
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
~Arthur Miller
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
~Abraham Lincoln
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
~Winston Churchill
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
~Walter Winchell
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
~Henry Ward Beecher
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
~Oscar Wilde
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~Susan Sontag
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.
~Albert Einstein
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
~Benjamin Franklin
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
~Oscar Wilde
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
~Ryunosuke Satoro
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