Persons Quotes

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

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.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.