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

The repository contains 107 quotes in the category “People.”
Showing quotes 81 through 100 in the category “People.” Page 1 2 3 4 5 6.

Infidelity does not consist in believing or disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.

Thomas Paine
1737 — 1809

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Andrew Holmes
1874 —     

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915

Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else.

William Saroyan
1908 — 1981

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber
1894 — 1961

Our great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Alexander Hamilton
1755 — 1804

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I’m old, the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Sir Fred Hoyle
1915 — 2001

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
1932 —     

The reason most people talk to themselves is because they’re often the only ones who will listen.

MAD Magazine

If you lend someone an ear, don’t expect to be repaid with interest.

MAD Magazine

Ideals travel upward, manners downward.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 — 1873

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus
1913 — 1960

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Johnny Carson
1925 — 2005

Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?

Thomas Sowell
1930 —     

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

People’s wealth and worth are very rarely related.

Malcolm S. Forbes
1919 — 1990

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

“The Simpsons”

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