people quotes

If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt you, nine
times out of ten!

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
-- Publilius Syrus

Appearances often are deceiving.
-- Aesop

An evil mind is a great comfort.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest
would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
-- John Quincy Adams

All his life he has looked away... to the horizon, to the sky,
to the future. Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing.
-- Yoda

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our
pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs
and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious,
inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us
sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness
and acts that are contrary to habit...
-- Hippocrates "The Sacred Disease"

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he
is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.
-- Sydney Harris

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they
ought to be.
-- William Hazlitt

As you grow older, you will still do foolish things, but you will do them
with much more enthusiasm.
-- The Cowboy

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to
boot yourself in the posterior.
-- A.J. Liebling, "The Press"

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific."
-- Jane Wagner

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
-- Joseph Conrad

After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

Be careful what you set your heart on -- for it will surely be yours.
-- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

Only fools are quoted.
-- Anonymous

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and
finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of
murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by
their ignorance the hard way."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"

To be great is to be misunderstood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson