it takes all sorts

Idioms  

1. Many different kinds of people make up the world. For example, I would never go swimming in April, but it takes all sorts, or Gordon insists on wearing sunglasses indoors and out—I guess it takes all sorts. This expression, originating in the 1600s as It takes all sorts to make a world, is often used in remarking one's own difference from others or tolerating someone else's peculiarity. Also see no accounting for tastes.

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it takes all sorts

Of course, it takes all sorts and generally Southend welcomes all sorts.

From BBC ● May 18, 2016

As the British say, it takes all sorts to make a world.

From Economist ● May 15, 2012

What might a young scientist make of these two styles, apart from the observation that it takes all sorts?

From Nature ● Aug. 31, 2011

Happily it takes all sorts of folk to make a public—as well as a world.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

An' he shut the door, jest as if you boys would bother him,—Well, it takes all sorts of people to make a world.

From The Motor Boys on the Pacific Or, the Young Derelict Hunters by Clarence Young