Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
2] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
3] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
4] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
5] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
6] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
7] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
8] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
9] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
10] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
11] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
12] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
13] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
14] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
15] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
16] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
17] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
18] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
19] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
20] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
21] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
22] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
23] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
24] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
25] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
26] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
27] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
28] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
29] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
30] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
31] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
32] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
33] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
34] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
35] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
36] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
37] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
39] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
40] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
41] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
42] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
43] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
44] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
45] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
46] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
47] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
48] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
49] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
50] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
51] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
52] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
53] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
54] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
55] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
56] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
57] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
58] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
59] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
60] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
61] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
62] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
63] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
64] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
65] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
66] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
67] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
68] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
69] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
70] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
71] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
72] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
73] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
74] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
75] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
76] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
77] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
78] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
79] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
80] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
81] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
82] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
83] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
84] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
85] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
86] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
87] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
88] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
89] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
90] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
91] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
92] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
93] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
94] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
95] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
96] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
97] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
98] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
99] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
100] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
101] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
102] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
103] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
104] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
105] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
106] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
107] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
108] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
109] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
110] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
111] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
112] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
113] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
114] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
115] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
116] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
117] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
118] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
119] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
120] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
121] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
122] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
123] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
124] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
125] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
126] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
127] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
128] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
129] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
130] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
131] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
132] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
133] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
134] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
135] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
136] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
137] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
138] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
139] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
140] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
141] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
142] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
143] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
144] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
145] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
146] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
147] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
148] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
149] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
150] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
151] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
152] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
153] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
154] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
155] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
156] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
157] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
158] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
159] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
160] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
161] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
162] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
163] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
164] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
165] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
166] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
167] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
168] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
169] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
170] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
171] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
172] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
173] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
174] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
175] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
176] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
177] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
178] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
179] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
180] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
181] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
182] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
183] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
184] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
185] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
186] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
187] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
188] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
189] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
190] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
191] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
192] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
193] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
194] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
195] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
196] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
197] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
198] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
199] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
200] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
201] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
202] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
203] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
204] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
205] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
206] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
207] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
208] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
209] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
210] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
211] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
212] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
213] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
214] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
215] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
216] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
217] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
218] Commonsense is not so common.
219] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
220] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
221] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
222] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
223] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
224] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
225] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
226] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
227] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
228] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
229] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
230] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
231] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
232] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
233] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
234] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
235] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
236] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
237] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
238] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
239] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
240] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
241] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
242] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
243] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
244] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
245] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
246] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
247] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
248] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
249] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
250] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
251] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
252] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
253] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
254] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
255] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
256] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
257] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
258] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
259] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
260] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
261] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
262] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
263] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
264] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
265] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
266] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
267] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
268] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
269] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
270] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
271] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
272] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
273] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
274] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
275] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
276] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
277] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
278] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
279] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
280] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
281] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
282] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
283] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
284] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
285] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
286] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
287] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
288] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
289] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
290] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
291] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
292] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
293] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
294] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
295] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
296] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
297] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
298] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
299] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
300] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
301] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
302] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
303] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
304] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
305] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
306] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
307] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
308] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
309] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
310] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
311] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
312] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
313] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
314] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
315] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
316] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
317] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
318] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
319] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
320] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
321] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
322] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
323] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
324] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
325] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
326] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
327] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
328] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
329] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
330] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
331] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
332] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
333] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
334] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
335] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
336] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
337] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
338] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
339] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
340] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
341] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
342] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
343] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
344] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
345] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
346] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
347] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
348] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
349] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
350] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
351] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
352] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
353] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
354] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
355] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
356] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
357] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
358] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
359] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
360] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
361] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
362] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
363] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
364] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
365] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
366] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
367] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
368] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
369] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
370] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
371] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
372] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
373] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
374] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
375] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
376] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
377] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
378] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
379] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
380] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
381] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
382] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
383] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
384] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
385] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
386] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
387] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
388] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
389] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
390] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
391] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
392] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
393] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
394] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
395] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
396] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
397] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
398] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
399] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
400] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
401] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
402] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
403] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
404] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
405] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
406] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
407] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
408] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
409] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
410] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
411] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
412] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
413] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
414] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
415] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
416] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
417] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
418] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
419] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
420] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
421] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
422] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
423] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
424] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
425] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
426] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
427] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
428] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
429] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
430] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
431] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
432] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
433] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
434] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
435] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
436] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
437] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
438] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
439] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
440] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
441] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
442] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
443] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
444] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
445] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
446] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
447] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
448] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
449] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
450] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
451] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
452] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
453] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
454] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
455] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
456] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
457] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
458] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
459] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
460] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
461] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
462] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
463] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
464] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
465] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
466] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
467] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
468] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
469] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
470] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
471] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
472] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
473] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
474] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
475] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
476] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
477] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
478] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
479] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
480] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
481] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
482] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
483] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
484] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
485] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
486] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
487] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
488] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
489] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
490] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
491] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
492] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
493] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
494] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
495] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
497] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
498] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
499] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
500] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
501] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
502] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
503] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
504] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
505] Commonsense is not so common.
506] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
507] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
508] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
509] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
510] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
511] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
512] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
513] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
514] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
515] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
516] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
517] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
518] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
519] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
520] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
521] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
522] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
523] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
524] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
525] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
526] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
527] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
528] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
529] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
530] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
531] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
533] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
534] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
535] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
536] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
537] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
538] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
539] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
540] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
541] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
542] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
543] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
544] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
545] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
546] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
547] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
548] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
549] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
550] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
551] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
552] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
553] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
554] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
555] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
556] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
557] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
558] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
559] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
560] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
561] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
562] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
563] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
564] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
565] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
566] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
567] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
568] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
569] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
570] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
571] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
572] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
573] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
574] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
575] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
576] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
577] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
578] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
579] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
580] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
581] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
582] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
583] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
584] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
585] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
586] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
587] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
588] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
589] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
590] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
591] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
592] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
593] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
594] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
595] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
596] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
597] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
598] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
599] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
600] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger