Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: People.

The repository contains 107 quotes in the category “People.”
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Benedict de Spinoza
1632 — 1677

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Yiddish Proverb

No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
1804 — 1881

Considering that we all enter the world the same way and leave in the same condition, we spend an awful lot of time in between trying to show that we are so different from other people.

Thomas Sowell
1930 —     

We are more anixous to speak than to be heard.

Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney
1919 —     

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That’s bad enough for me.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

The way to become boring is to say everything.

Voltaire
1694 — 1778

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Earl Bertrand Russell
1872 — 1970

One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.

Proverb

When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
1940 —     

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.

President George Washington
1732 — 1799

All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 — 1882

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

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