Person Quotes

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
-Voltaire

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
-Plato

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."
-Mark Twain

"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
-Mark Twain

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."
-Mark Twain

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
-Mark Twain

"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."
-Mark Twain

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
-Mark Twain

"If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."
-Mark Twain

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"How person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses."
-Tom Krause

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
-Plato

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
-Plato

"A person's a person, no matter how small. "
-Dr. Seuss

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
-Carl Jung

"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."
-Aristotle

"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."
-George Bernard Shaw

"We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be."
-Oprah Winfrey

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
-Carl Jung

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
-Thomas Jefferson

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity. "
-Yiddish proverb

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-Oscar Wilde