People

People usually do things, and suffer martyrdom, because they have an inclination that way. The best artist is not the man who fixes his eye on posterity, but the one who loves the practice of his art. And instead of having a taste for being successful merchants and retiring at thirty, some people have a taste for high and what we call heroic forms of excitement.

Robert Louis Stevenson, The English Admirals

47a. She made a calendar of a song
about going deaf. Each page one
fewer note or word. People, she proposed,
would use it to clear the air.

A person is smart; people are dumb panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

-- Agent K, MIB

You can fool some people all of the time and all people some of the time,
but you can't fool all people all of the time.

Of course I'm lonely when I am alone. What I hate is being lonely when there are other people present.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things!

Some people will
hold anything except their tongues,
keep anything except their word and
lose nothing except their patience.

C. C. Colton

The other day a friend that I have not been knowing very long said that 'human beings are wounderful'.
At first I didn't realize the ironical aspect in this statement, but after some moments of being bedazzled, I was only wondering wheter to laugh about it or starting to be depressed.

'Why, Mr Trent,' returned Dick, 'there is a proverb which talks about being merry and wise. There are some people who can be merry and can't be wise, and some who can be wise (or think they can) and can't be merry. I'm one of the first sort. If the proverb's a good 'un, I supose it's better to keep to half of it than none; at all events, I'd rather be merry and not wise, than like you, neither one nor t'other.'

»Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days goverments had better get out of their way and let them have it.«



Dwight D. Eisenhower