People
- Pat Colgate, the artistic director of the Placer Theatre Ballet dance company
- Stirling Colgate, an American diagnostician of thermonuclear weapons at the Livermore National Laboratory in California
- William Colgate (1783-1857), American manufacturer, founder of what would become the Colgate toothpaste company
- James Boorman Colgate (1818–1904), financier, son of William Colgate
- Samuel Colgate (1822-1897), manufacturer and philanthropist, son of William Colgate
- Samuel Colgate, Jr., first football head coach of Colgate University, son of Samuel Colgate
- Gilbert Colgate, American bobsledder, bronze medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Colgate Darden, a Democratic Congressman from Virginia
- Colgate Hoyt (1849-1922), American businessman
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbor knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)
“Just as rotten wood cannot be used for pillars, so base people cannot become masters.”
—Chinese proverb.