We are a bit overpopulated. Here are some proverbs and quotes about people.
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I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby, it just happens every day.
The Rolling StonesWith flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby, it just happens every day.
Source: Paint it Black Lyrics
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
Drew BarrymoreI think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
Roger EbertI try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Elmore LeonardI want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
Pete SeegerIf I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.
Pat McAfeeIf there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott AdamsIf they are offered winged ants, people will eat them.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground where they are.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:21
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother TeresaIf you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
Willie DavisIf you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
Andy TaylorImagine all the people, living life in peace.
John LennonImmature is a word boring people use to describe fun people.
Will FerrellIn cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Geoffrey F. FisherIt doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
Charlie WattsIt is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne BrontëSource: Agnes Grey
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
Dave BarryIt is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.
Prince CharlesIt is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
JeromeIt's a miracle that brainless people can talk.
MinkukelIt's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark TwainLet the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Thomas JeffersonLet's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
The Rolling StonesLet's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie ChaplinLonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian HellmanMany people find the universe confusing - it's not.
Stephen HawkingMany people take training to improve their memory. Wouldn't we be better off with training that helps us to forget?
MinkukelMoses answered, 'As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:29
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen CoveyMost people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
Konrad LorenzMost people like short prayers and long sausages.
Most people would sooner die than start to think. In fact - they do so.
Bertrand RussellMy advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Stephen HawkingNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark TwainNever underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.
Kofi AnnanNon-intellectual people overestimate the power of reason among intellectuals.
Jill Paton WalshSource: The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate
Not far away were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Near the trolls.
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.
Stewart UdallNuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.
Leslie DewanOld people are pessimists and young people are optimists because pessimists get old when they are 20 and optimists stay young all their life.
MinkukelOnly in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John MajorOnly stupid people don't change their minds.
Boutros Boutros-GhaliPeople always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
Bill WattersonPeople are crazy and times are strange.
Bob DylanPeople are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.
Mother TeresaPeople are not clones in a monoculture, so what satisfies one will frustrate another, and the only way they can end up equal is if they are treated unequally.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress