People

People usually do things, and suffer martyrdom, because they have an inclination that way. The best artist is not the man who fixes his eye on posterity, but the one who loves the practice of his art. And instead of having a taste for being successful merchants and retiring at thirty, some people have a taste for high and what we call heroic forms of excitement.

Robert Louis Stevenson, The English Admirals

'Why, Mr Trent,' returned Dick, 'there is a proverb which talks about being merry and wise. There are some people who can be merry and can't be wise, and some who can be wise (or think they can) and can't be merry. I'm one of the first sort. If the proverb's a good 'un, I supose it's better to keep to half of it than none; at all events, I'd rather be merry and not wise, than like you, neither one nor t'other.'

»Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days goverments had better get out of their way and let them have it.«



Dwight D. Eisenhower

The other day a friend that I have not been knowing very long said that 'human beings are wounderful'.
At first I didn't realize the ironical aspect in this statement, but after some moments of being bedazzled, I was only wondering wheter to laugh about it or starting to be depressed.

People keep telling me that there is something wrong with my compu

47a. She made a calendar of a song
about going deaf. Each page one
fewer note or word. People, she proposed,
would use it to clear the air.

Some people will
hold anything except their tongues,
keep anything except their word and
lose nothing except their patience.

C. C. Colton

Remember the old PTL Club? People That Love. Only a televangelist would come up with a TV show that's based on a grammatical error. But he somehow must have known that »PWL Club« just didn't ring.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things!

A person is smart; people are dumb panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

-- Agent K, MIB