The people are the city. [ Coriolanus ]
Still people are dangerous. [ La Fontaine ]
What silly people wits are! [ Beaumarchais ]
Vulgar people can't be still. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Fools form a numerous people. [ Florian ]
Few people know how to be old. [ La Roche ]
Lucky people are her favorites. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
The educators of the common people. [ Theodore Parker ]
The drama is the book of the people. [ Willmott ]
Among the people Scoggin's a doctor. [ Proverb ]
A poet must sing for his own people. [ Stedman ]
Fools never understand people of wit. [ Vauvenargues ]
Benevolent people are always cheerful. [ Father Taylor ]
We are one people and will act as one. [ Schiller ]
The will of the people is the best law. [ U. S. Grant ]
A proverb and a byword among all people. [ Bible ]
Ambition is not a vice of little people. [ Montaigne ]
People hate, as they love, unreasonably. [ Thackeray ]
Intense people are usually narrowminded. [ Madame de Sartory ]
Some people are proud of their humility. [ Beecher ]
It is tranquil people who accomplish much. [ Thoreau ]
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. [ Swift ]
The greatest people have their weak points. [ Louisa M. Alcott ]
People are to be taken in very small doses. [ Emerson ]
There remaineth a rest to the people of God. [ Bible ]
Credulity tells people we are short-sighted. [ Proverb ]
People do not lack strength; they lack will. [ Victor Hugo ]
You must look into people as well as at them. [ Chesterfield ]
Fancy tortures more people than does reality. [ Ouida ]
Few people do business well who do nothing else. [ Chesterfield ]
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. [ Chamfort ]
Common people hang more after praise than profit. [ Proverb ]
The people are the only sovereigns of any country. [ R. D. Owen ]
Interest blinds some people and enlightens others. [ La Roche ]
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. [ Franklin ]
The end of government is the happiness of the people. [ Macaulay ]
Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. [ Jean Paul ]
Humility is the first of the virtues for other people. [ Holmes ]
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying. [ Pascal ]
Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. [ G. D. Prentice ]
The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius. [ Whipple ]
Mediocrity is excellence to the eyes of mediocre people. [ Joubert ]
Clever people never listen and stupid people never talk. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A puff of wind and the praise of the people weigh alike. [ Proverb ]
No law reaches it, but all rightminded people observe it. [ Chamfort ]
Not kings alone - the people, too, have their flatterers. [ Mirabeau ]
Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The press should be the voice of the people, not of party. [ James Ellis ]
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. [ Chesterfield ]
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. [ Zimmermann ]
The character of the common people changes in a single day. [ Voltaire ]
It is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards. [ Voltaire ]
Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.
Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent it. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own. [ Horace ]
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. [ Tacitus ]
An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. [ German ]
A college education shows a man how little other people know. [ Haliburton ]
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
When other people are fretful, do you be merciful and patient.
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. [ Montesquieu ]
No party should fear to go before the people for their decision. [ Robert Yates ]
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government. [ Woodrow Wilson, At the Workingman's Dinner, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1912 ]
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. [ Burke ]
Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome. [ Proverb ]
Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. [ Horace ]
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. [ Lord Bacon ]
I find that most people are made only for the common uses of life. [ John Foster ]
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. [ Rousseau ]
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. [ G. S. Hillard ]
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent. [ Richardson ]
An ass among apes, (i.e. a fool among people who make a fool of him). [ Proverb ]
We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Sensitive people wish to be loved; vain people wish only to be preferred. [ Levis ]
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. [ Samuel Johnson ]
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. [ Hood ]
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. [ Haliburton ]
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. [ Addison ]
The people once belonged to the kings; now the kings belong to the people. [ Heine ]
The real heroes of this war are the great, brave, patient, nameless people. [ Whitelaw Reid ]
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. [ Olive R. Seward ]
There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. [ French ]
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. [ Chatfield ]
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. [ Hamerton ]
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. [ Lady Montagu ]
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. [ Swift ]
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. [ Martin Van Buren ]
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. [ Haliburton ]
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! [ Holmes ]
There are few people who are not ashamed of their amours when the fit is over. [ Rochefoucauld ]
It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read. [ Dr. Potter ]
By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. [ Béroalde Verville ]
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies! [ William Shakespeare ]
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. [ Saadi ]
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. [ James A. Garfield ]
Ignorant people are to be caught by the ears as one catches a pot by the handle. [ From the French ]