(i) Naïvety 
There are two types of people in this world:
Those who do and those who don't
Those who will and those who won't
Those who can and those who can't 
Those who’re clothed and those who aren't

Those that would deny the nude their capability 


monsters

(ii) Hypocrisy 
There are two types of people in this world, 
I always say;
Those that should talk,
and those that do

(iii) Pretence
There are two types of people in this world 
Those who get the picture, 
and those who take the picture 

(iv) Pessimism
There are two types of people in this world 
Grendels, 
and Grendels’ mothers 

(v) Futility 
There are fifteen types of people in this world
Or thereabouts
Those to whom everything matters
and those in doubt
And those with means and those without
Those with good intentions
Those with poorly balanced humours
Those with no antithesis
Those who presume to categorise
Those who forgot to be mentioned
(silly, silly people) 
Dog people
Vegetarians
Self-appointed doormen
Ostrogoths
Gardening enthusiasts 
Capybara people

(vi) Sensitivity
There are at least two types of people
In any room containing more than one person 

(vii) Binary 
There are two types of people in this world
Those who are aging, 
and those who've stopped

(viii) Love
There are two people in my world
There is me, and there is you

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