Some people are very strange, but it takes all kinds to make a world.
it takes all kinds to make a world
idiomDiversity is essential: the world would be incomplete if everyone were alike; an expression of surprise at a person or people's eccentricity.
Origin
first recorded 17th c.Calque of Spanish de todos ha de haber en el mundo (“There must be of all [types] in the world”), Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Capítulo VI, 1615 (Don Quixote, Volume 2, Chapter VI); translated 1620, Shelton, as "In the world there must surely be of all sorts." and appeared in various forms thereafter.
My neighbor collects old clocks and wears bright costumes, but I suppose it takes all kinds to make a world.
While the eccentric behavior of the local artist often baffled the townspeople, they eventually accepted that it takes all kinds to make a world.
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all over the world
throughout the world, everywhere, worldwide, globally.
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cannot make it
Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
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come into the world
To be born.
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coming into the world
The act of being born; a birth.
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dead to the world
Sound asleep.
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doctors make the worst patients
It is difficult to advise people on subjects that they are experts on.
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edge of the world
A very remote place.
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end of the world
Any change that seems catastrophic or devastating.