People

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. – Henry Rollins

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. – Benjamin Franklin

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. – Arthur Miller

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. – Walter Savage Landor

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. – Winston Churchill

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. – FranÃ§ois VI de la Rochefoucault

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. – Jimmy Wales, speech

Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dismissing him, I seem to have discharged an arrow into the heart of Society. Wherever that young enthusiast goes, he will astonish and disconcert men by dividing for them the cloud that covers the gulf in man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. – Albert Perry

Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

When we look on the characters of man and woman, we cannot but perceive that neither is perfect by itself, but that each needs the other for its perfection…. Hence the one must be softened by tender emotions, and the other strengthened by firmness. – Frederick A. Rauch, Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropo

The present ideal is the worship of the gents who sing like canaries and the women who bellow like lions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

This is Scott Fitzgerald: very romantic writer—big with English majors, college girls, nymphomaniacs… – Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. – Dorothy Parker

[N]o man is a dullard… every man is a philosopher. – Joe Kita, “What I Know,” Wisdom of Our Fathers, 1999