Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
2] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
3] 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.
4] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
5] 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.
6] 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
7] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
8] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
9] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
10] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
11] 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
12] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
13] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
14] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
15] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
16] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
17] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
18] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
19] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
20] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
21] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
22] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
23] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
24] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
25] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
26] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
27] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
28] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
29] 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.
30] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
31] 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.
32] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
33] 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
34] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
35] 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 .
36] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
37] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
38] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
39] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
40] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
41] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
42] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
43] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
44] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
45] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
46] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
47] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
48] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
49] 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)
50] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
51] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
52] 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)
53] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
54] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
55] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
56] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
57] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
58] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
59] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
60] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
61] 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
62] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
63] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
64] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
65] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
66] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
67] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
68] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
69] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
70] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
71] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
72] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
73] 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
74] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
75] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
76] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
77] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
78] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
79] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
80] 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.
81] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
82] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
83] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
84] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
85] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
86] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
87] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
88] 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.
89] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
90] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
91] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
92] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
93] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
94] 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)
95] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
96] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
97] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
98] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
99] 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.
100] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
101] 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
102] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
103] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
104] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
105] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
106] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
107] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
108] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
109] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
110] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
111] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
112] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
113] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
114] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
115] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
116] 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
117] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
118] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
119] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
120] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
121] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
122] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
123] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
124] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
125] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
126] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
127] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
128] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
129] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
130] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
131] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
132] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
133] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
134] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
135] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
136] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
137] 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
138] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
139] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
140] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
141] 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
142] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
143] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
144] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
145] 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)
146] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
147] 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
148] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
149] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
150] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
151] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
152] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
153] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
154] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
155] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
156] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
157] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
158] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
159] 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.
160] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
161] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
162] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
163] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
164] 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)
165] Commonsense is not so common.
166] 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.
167] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
168] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
169] 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
170] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
171] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
172] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
173] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
174] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
175] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
176] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
177] 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
178] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
179] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
180] 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
181] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
182] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
183] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
184] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
185] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
186] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
187] 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
188] 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.
189] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
190] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
191] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
192] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
193] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
194] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
195] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
196] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
197] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
198] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
199] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
200] 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.
201] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
202] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
203] 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.
204] 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.
205] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
206] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
207] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
209] 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.
210] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
211] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
212] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
213] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
214] 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.
215] 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.
216] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
217] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
218] 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
219] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
220] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
221] 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.
222] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
223] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
224] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
225] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
226] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
227] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
228] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
229] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
230] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
231] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
232] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
233] 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
234] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
235] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
236] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
237] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
238] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
239] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
240] 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.
241] 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
242] 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.
243] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
244] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
245] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
246] 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
247] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
248] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
249] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
250] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
251] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
252] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
253] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
254] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
255] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
256] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
257] 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
258] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
259] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
260] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
261] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
262] 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.
263] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
264] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
265] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
266] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
267] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
268] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
269] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
270] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
271] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
272] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
273] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
274] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
275] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
276] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
277] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
278] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
279] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
280] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
281] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
282] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
283] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
284] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
285] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
286] 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.
287] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
288] 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
289] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
290] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
291] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
292] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
293] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
294] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
295] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
296] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
297] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
298] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
299] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
300] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
301] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
302] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
303] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
304] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
305] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
306] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
307] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
308] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
309] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
310] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
311] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
312] 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.
313] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
314] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
315] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
316] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
317] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
318] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
319] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
320] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
321] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
322] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
323] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
324] 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)
325] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
326] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
327] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
328] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
329] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
330] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
331] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
332] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
333] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
334] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
335] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
336] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
337] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
338] 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
339] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
340] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
341] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
342] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
343] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
344] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
345] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
346] 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
347] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
348] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
349] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
350] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
351] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
352] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
353] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
354] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
355] 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.
356] 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.
357] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
358] 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)
359] 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
360] 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.”
361] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
362] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
363] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
364] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
365] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
366] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
367] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
368] 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
369] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
370] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
371] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
372] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
373] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
374] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
375] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
376] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
377] 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
378] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
379] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
380] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
381] 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)
382] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
383] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
384] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
385] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
386] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
387] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
388] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
389] 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
390] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
391] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
392] 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)
393] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
394] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
395] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
396] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
397] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
398] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
399] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
400] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
401] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
402] 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
403] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
404] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
405] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
406] 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.
407] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
408] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
409] 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.”
410] 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]
411] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
412] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
413] 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)
414] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
415] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
416] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
417] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
418] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
419] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
420] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
421] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
422] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
423] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
424] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
425] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
426] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
427] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
428] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
429] 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.
430] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
431] 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)
432] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
433] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
434] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
435] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
436] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
437] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
438] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
439] 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
440] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
441] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
442] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
443] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
444] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
445] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
446] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
447] 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.
448] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
449] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
450] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
451] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
452] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
453] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
454] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
456] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
457] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
458] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
459] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
460] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
461] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
462] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
463] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
464] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
465] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
466] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
467] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
468] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
469] 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.
470] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
471] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
472] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
473] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
474] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
475] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
476] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
477] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
478] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
479] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
480] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
481] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
482] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
483] 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
484] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
485] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
486] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
487] 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.
488] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
489] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
490] 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
491] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
492] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
493] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
494] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
495] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
496] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
497] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
498] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
499] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
500] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
501] 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
502] 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)
503] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
504] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
505] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
506] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
507] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
508] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
509] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
510] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
511] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
512] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
513] 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)
514] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
515] 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.
516] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
517] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
518] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
519] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
520] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
521] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
522] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
523] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
524] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
525] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
526] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
527] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
528] 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
529] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
530] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
531] 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)
532] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
533] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
534] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
535] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
536] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
537] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
538] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
539] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
540] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
541] 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.
542] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
543] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
544] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
545] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
546] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
547] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
548] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
549] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
550] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
551] 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
552] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
553] 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
554] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
555] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
556] 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
557] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
558] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
559] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
560] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
561] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
562] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
563] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
564] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
565] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
566] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
567] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
568] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
569] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
570] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
571] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
572] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
573] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
574] 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.
575] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
576] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
577] 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.
578] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
579] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
580] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
581] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
582] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
583] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
584] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
585] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
586] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
587] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
588] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
589] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
590] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
591] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
592] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
593] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
594] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
595] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
596] 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)
597] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
598] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
599] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
600] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)