In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

You can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when you learn something from other people, then you keep moving onward for yourself.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

People usually told him the same joke two or three times.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people's affairs, never turn to examine themselves.