Sayings about Crowds
Habit is the intelligence of the crowd. ~ German Proverbs
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed. ~ Spanish Proverbs
The crowd is not led by the head but by the heart. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Never give advice in a crowd.~ Arabian Proverb
A wise man takes his own decisions; the ignorant goes with the crowd. ~ Chinese Proverb
A tiger cannot beat a crowd of monkeys. ~ Chinese Proverb
Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.~ Malagasy Proverbs
No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.~ Arabian Proverb
A big crowd, but not a human being in sight!~ Yiddish Proverbs
Advice given in the midst of a crowd is loathsome. ~ Arabian Proverb
Cross the river among a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you. ~ Malagasy Proverb
Quotations about Crowds
Never follow the crowd.~ Bernard M. Baruch
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.~ Arthur Brisbane
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.~ Author Unknown
Business today consists in persuading crowds. ~ T. S. Eliot
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has. ~ Alan Ashley-Pitt
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.~ R. S. Donnell
The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.~ Mychal Wynn
A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself. ~ Loretta Young
It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter. ~ Drew Curtis
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.~ Louis Aragon
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. ~ Alice Meynell
Every crowd has a silver lining.~ P.T. Barnum
I don’t like being out of the crowd. It’s lonely within a group. ~ Julie Walters
With the crowds on your side, it’s easier to play up to your potential. ~ Julius Erving
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.~ James Crook
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. ~ Yogi Berra
The future belongs to crowds. ~ Don DeLillo
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. ~ Jean Cocteau
The crowd gives the leader new strength.~ Evenus
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.~ A. Lou Vickery
The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ is the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. ~ Drew Curtis
Youth doesn’t need friends – it only needs crowds. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them. ~ Gustave Le Bon
Look, when that crowd gets to cheering, when we know they’re with us, when we know they like us, we play better. A hell of a lot better! ~ Bill Carlin
The crowd that follows me with admiration would run with the same eagerness if I were marching to the guillotine. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. ~ William R. Alger
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There’s a lot of whiners in every crowd. ~ R. Lee Ermey
