All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
Hans Rosling
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
Walter Salles
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thomas Secker
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond Tutu
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson