Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
People Quotes
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: ‘He who builds on the people builds on mud.’
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.
People who rely most on God rely least on themselves.
Nor would I have it thought presumption that a person of very mean and humble station should venture to discourse and lay down rules concerning the government of Princes. For as those who make maps of countries place themselves low down in the plains to study the character of mountains and elevated lands, and place […]
In Beverly Hills, they have real jewelry and fake people. In West Virginia, we have fake jewelry but real people.
The cross people carry to-day is made of gold or set with diamonds.
I remember one evening sitting with a lot of men in the Coffee House in New York – we had all been drinking, carousing – rather cheap actresses, magazine illustrators, popular painters, popular novelists. A pretty bad lot in general, sold out and all that, but suddenly I found myself saying to myself, “These are […]
