Quotes with persons

  • Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
  • My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
  • And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
  • Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
  • Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
  • I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
  • The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
  • Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Ruskin Civilization is the making of civil persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aristotle The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Martin Luther An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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  • Auberon Herbert And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Will Cuppy Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Anthony Kennedy As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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