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.'

Of course I'm lonely when I am alone. What I hate is being lonely when there are other people present.

You can fool some people all of the time and all people some of the time,
but you can't fool all people all of the time.

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

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.

People are generally good, trustworthy and caring.

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.

u know, I'm sitting at my comp + I look up at the wall, and I see an old limp bizkit poster that I threw up about a year ago… you know? and I wonder... why do we all seem to cover up our walls with pics of celebrities? you know? it doesn't make sense... putting up pics of people we don't really know and prob. will never meet, y don't we get big posters of people we really know and really admire in OUR real lives? sure we all have small pictures of our friends somewhere that we can c, but wen u walk into a room wat do u notice more: a 3x5 picture of a kids gf, or that huge poster of britney spears half naked on a beach? britney of course... a girl who has millions of dollars and can get any dick she wants.. y would she choose urs? but you know that nice little gf did, shouldn't you honor her with that big shrine in the corner of your room? of course not... she never recorded a meaningless pop song...