Persons Quotes

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

I was a very, very establishment person prior to wanting to run.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

Let the other person save face.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

The greater person is one of courtesy.

It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him.

Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

An oak is no respecter of persons.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

I want someone who can handle me. And I'm not the easiest person to handle.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

I am definitely a person of color.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

The wealthiest person on earth is the one who appreciates

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.