Try out your shoes on your feet -- gauge people against their misfortune.
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.
Neither reprove nor flatter your wife where people hear or see it.
People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.
Not all people who have yawned together must get married.
While the sun is still up, let people work that the earth may live.
People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail.
When the king reigns it is thanks to the people; when a river sings it's thanks to the stones.
Hunger brings people down, but pride can help them get up.
Lovers always think that other people have had their eyes put out.
A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.
There are people who place a basket on your head to see what you carry.
Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them ...
Today the average lifetime is over seventy years, long enough for a great number of accomplishments. But this development has occurred within the present century. Before that, people tended to die much younger than they do today, and among those earl...
Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house,...
One can't always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are nothing, you're animal and must die, and no one will know you we...
One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are nothing, you're animal and must die, and no one will know you were...
In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do w...
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of...
