Persons Quotes

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

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.

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

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

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.