Plain People Quotes

15 quotes by 12 authors

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. — Irving Babbitt
• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine… — Ellen Goodman
• The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment… — Abraham Lincoln
• I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain… — Frank Marshall Davis
• Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee
• The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,… — H. L. Mencken
• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National… — Eamon de Valera
• The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow… — H. L. Mencken
• About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. — Kin Hubbard
• Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their… — Katharine Hepburn
• Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. — Bernard Malamud
• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me… — H. L. Mencken
• No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain… — Henry Louis Mencken
• No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever… — H L Mencken
• God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them. — Abraham Lincoln

Who Wrote These Plain People Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 15 Plain People Quotes as follows:

• 3 Plain People Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 2 Plain People Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
• 1 Plain People Quote by Kin Hubbard
• 1 Plain People Quote by Katharine Hepburn
• 1 Plain People Quote by Bernard Malamud
• 1 Plain People Quote by Henry Louis Mencken
• 1 Plain People Quote by H L Mencken
• 1 Plain People Quote by Irving Babbitt
• 1 Plain People Quote by Ellen Goodman
• 1 Plain People Quote by Frank Marshall Davis
• 1 Plain People Quote by Brownie McGhee
• 1 Plain People Quote by Eamon de Valera