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| Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. | | William James | |
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| Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. | | Samuel Butler | |
| People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. | | Edgar Watson Howe | |
| People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there | | Bob Edwards | |
| People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them | | Anton Chekhov | |
| People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. | | Chamfort | |
| People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. | | Samuel Butler | |
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| People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds | | Aldous Huxley | |
| People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. | | Norman Cousins | |
| People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. | | Epictetus | |
| People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not | | Giacomo Leopardi | |
| People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo | | Harry S Truman | |
