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