"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."

People, Fault

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

People, Economy

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

People, Problems, Want

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Common sense, Mistakes

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

People,

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

People, First

Explore more quotes by Sydney J. Harris

"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."

Time, Enemies, Lovers

"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."

Progress, Enemy

"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

Behavior, May, Pain

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

Computer, Computers, Men, Danger, Will

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

Education, Purpose, Leisure, Liberal

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."

Marriage, Success

"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."

People, Fault

"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."

Philosophy,

"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."

Knowledge,

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."

Change, Love, Time, Hate