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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables


People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. - Henry Rollins


Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin


What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. - Susan Sontag


You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887


A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. - Franklin P. Jones


fanatic.
A person who redoubles his efforts after having forgotten his aims.
One who can't change his opinion and won't change the subject.
- Esar's Comic Dictionary by Evan Esar, 1943


A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. - Arthur Miller


The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne


Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. - Walter Savage Landor


I'm the strayest dog you'll ever meet. - Daniel,

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill





Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. - Walt Whitman


If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. - François VI de la Rochefoucault


A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. - Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. - W. Somerset Maugham


Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. - Jimmy Wales, speech







His sweet and generous sympathies, his refined taste for the excellent in letters, his grateful perception of the true good of being, his ideal spirit, dwells latently in every bosom. And all may brighten and radiate it, till life's cold pathway is warm with the sunshine of the soul. - Henry T. Tuckerman, "Characteristics of Lamb," in American Quarterly Review, March 1836  [Referring to Charles Lamb (1775–1834) —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dismissing him, I seem to have discharged an arrow into the heart of Society. Wherever that young enthusiast goes, he will astonish and disconcert men by dividing for them the cloud that covers the gulf in man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very





Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. - Albert Perry


Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water. - Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)


When we look on the characters of man and woman, we cannot but perceive that neither is perfect by itself, but that each needs the other for its perfection.... Hence the one must be softened by tender emotions, and the other strengthened by firmness. - Frederick A. Rauch, Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropology, Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures, Delivered to the Junior Class Marshall College, Penn., 1840


The present ideal is the worship of the gents who sing like canaries and the women who bellow like lions. - Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)


This is Scott Fitzgerald: very romantic writer—big with English majors, college girls, nymphomaniacs... - Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973


In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between. - Lemony Snicket


His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. - Dorothy Parker


[N]o man is a dullard... every man is a philosopher. - Joe Kita, "What I Know," Wisdom of Our Fathers, 1999


I'm Black. God knew my people would go through struggles so he gave us a lifetime supply of cool to compensate. - Scrubs, "His Story III"


People are who they are — give or take 15%. - Modern Family, "Fifteen Percent," written by Steven Levitan, spoken by the character Mitchell Pritchett, original airdate 2010 January 20th


Groups of people are like a massive Rock, Paper, Scissors war. - Daniel, @blindedpoet


Desgenais... was firm and serious, although a smile hovered about his lips. He was a man of heart, but as dry as a pumice-stone. - Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, translated from French by Kendall Warren


[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into. - Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell


People are like holidays. Do others see you as Christmas, or more like Tax Day? - Terri Guillemets


It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. - Alexander Pope


History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban


Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? - Walt Whitman