everybody quotes

If we domore with less, ourresponsewill be adequateto take care of everybody.

- R(ichard) Buckminster Fuller
  In Playboy.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, Why Democracy means, Everybody but me.

- (James Mercer) Langston Hughes
  'The Black Man Speaks'.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

- Robert M Hutchins
  Farewell address to students at the University of Chicago.

Everybody lies about sex. People lie during sex. If it weren't for lies, there'd be no sex.

-Jerry Seinfeld
  In the NewYorkTimes,18 Dec.

'Do you know what a pessimist is?' 'A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.'

- George Bernard Shaw
  An Unsocial Socialist, ch.5.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

-Jan Christian Smuts
  Explaining the failure of the League of Nations to the Empire ParliamentaryAssociation, London, 25 Nov.

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, becausethey had once belonged somewhere.That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

- Gertrude Stein
  Everybody's Autobiography, ch.1.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

- Gertrude Stein
  'Reflection on theAtomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings inWorld Politics (1959).

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

- Michael Stipe
  'Everybody Hurts' (co-written by members of REM).

Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  OurTown, act 2.