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  • We are the people our parents warned us about.
        Jimmy Buffett   Best?
  • We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
        Tom Stoppard   Best?
  • Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
        Muhammad Ali   Best?
  • With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
        Steven Weinberg   Best?
  • Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
        Michael Levine   Best?
  • The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.
        Nancy Astor   Best?
  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  • Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
        Robert Solow   Best?
  • Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
        John Cheever   Best?
  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
        Isaac Asimov   Best?
  • ...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
        Doug Larson   Best?
  • I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
        Noel Coward   Best?
  • It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
        Georges Jacques Danton   Best?
  • I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
        W. C. Fields   Best?
  • It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
        P.D. James   Best?
  • Two people kissing always look like fish.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
        Jerry Falwell   Best?
  • This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
        G.K. Chesterton   Best?
  • ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, _jacere_, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.
        Timothy Leary   Best?
  • If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
        Doug Larson   Best?
  • Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
        Joseph Heller   Best?

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