Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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)
2] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
3] 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
4] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
5] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
6] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
7] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
8] 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.
9] 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.
10] 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
11] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
12] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
13] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
14] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
15] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
16] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
17] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
18] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
19] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
20] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
21] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
22] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
23] 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
24] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
25] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
26] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
27] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
28] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
29] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
30] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
31] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
32] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
33] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
34] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
35] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
36] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
37] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
38] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
39] 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
40] 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
41] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
42] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
43] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
44] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
45] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
46] 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
47] 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.
48] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
49] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
50] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
51] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
52] 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).
53] 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
54] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
55] 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.
56] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
57] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
58] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
59] 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 .
60] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
61] 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
62] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
63] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
64] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
65] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
66] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
67] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
68] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
69] 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
70] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
71] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
72] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
73] 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)
74] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
75] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
76] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
77] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
78] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
79] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
80] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
81] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
82] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
83] 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
84] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
85] 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.
86] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
87] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
88] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
89] 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
90] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
91] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
92] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
93] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
94] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
95] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
96] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
97] 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)
98] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
99] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
100] 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)
101] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
102] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
103] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
104] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
105] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
106] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
107] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
108] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
109] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
110] 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.
111] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
112] 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]
113] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
114] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
115] 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
116] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
117] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
118] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
119] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
120] 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
121] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
122] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
123] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
124] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
125] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
126] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
127] 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.
128] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
129] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
130] 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.
131] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
132] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
133] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
134] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
135] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
136] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
137] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
138] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
139] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
140] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
141] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
142] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
143] 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.
144] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
145] 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.
146] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
147] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
148] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
149] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
150] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
151] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
152] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
153] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
154] 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.
155] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
156] 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)
157] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
158] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
159] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
160] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
161] 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)
162] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
163] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
164] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
165] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
166] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
167] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
168] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
169] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
170] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
171] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
172] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
173] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
174] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
175] 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.
176] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
177] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
178] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
179] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
180] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
181] 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.
182] 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.
183] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
184] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
185] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
186] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
187] 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.
188] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
189] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
190] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
191] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
192] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
193] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
194] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
195] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
196] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
197] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
198] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
199] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
200] 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.
201] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
202] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
203] 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
204] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
205] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
206] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
207] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
208] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
209] 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.
210] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
211] 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
212] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
213] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
214] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
215] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
216] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
217] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
218] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
219] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
220] 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
221] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
222] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
223] 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
224] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
225] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
226] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
227] 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.
228] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
229] 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)
230] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
231] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
232] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
233] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
234] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
235] 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
236] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
237] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
238] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
239] 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 .
240] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
241] 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)
242] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
243] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
244] 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.
245] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
246] 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.
247] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
248] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
249] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
250] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
251] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
252] 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.
253] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
254] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
255] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
256] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
257] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
258] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
259] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
260] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
261] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
262] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
263] 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)
264] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
265] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
266] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
267] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
268] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
269] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
270] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
271] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
272] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
273] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
274] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
275] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
276] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
277] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
278] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
279] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
280] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
281] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
282] 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.
283] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
284] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
285] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
286] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
287] 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
288] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
289] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
290] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
291] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
292] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
293] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
294] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
295] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
296] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
297] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
298] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
299] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
300] 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.
301] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
302] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
303] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
304] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
305] 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
306] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
307] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
308] 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)
309] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
310] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
311] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
312] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
313] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
314] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
315] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
316] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
317] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
318] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
319] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
320] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
321] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
322] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
323] 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)
324] 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
325] 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.
326] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
327] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
328] 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).
329] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
330] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
331] 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.
332] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
333] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
334] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
335] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
336] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
337] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
338] 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
339] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
340] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
341] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
342] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
343] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
344] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
345] 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
346] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
347] 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.
348] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
349] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
350] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
351] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
352] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
353] 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.
354] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
355] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
356] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
357] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
358] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
359] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
360] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
361] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
362] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
363] 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.
364] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
365] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
366] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
367] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
368] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
369] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
370] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
371] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
372] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
373] 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.
374] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
375] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
376] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
377] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
378] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
379] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
380] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
381] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
382] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
383] 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
384] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
385] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
386] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
387] Commonsense is not so common.
388] 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.
389] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
390] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
391] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
392] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
393] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
394] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
395] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
396] 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.
397] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
398] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
399] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
400] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
401] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
402] 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.
403] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
404] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
405] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
406] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
407] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
408] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
409] 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]
410] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
411] 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
412] 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)
413] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
414] 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
415] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
416] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
417] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
418] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
419] 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
420] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
421] 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
422] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
423] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
424] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
425] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
426] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
427] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
428] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
429] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
430] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
431] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
432] 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)
433] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
434] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
435] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
436] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
437] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
438] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
439] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
440] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
441] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
442] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
443] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
444] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
445] 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.
446] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
447] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
448] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
449] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
450] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
451] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
452] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
453] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
454] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
455] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
456] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
457] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
458] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
459] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
460] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
461] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
462] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
463] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
464] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
465] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
466] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
467] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
468] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
469] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
470] 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)
471] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
472] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
473] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
474] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
475] 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)
476] 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.
477] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
478] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
479] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
480] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
481] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
482] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
483] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
484] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
485] Commonsense is not so common.
486] 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.
487] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
488] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
489] 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
490] 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.
491] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
492] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
493] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
494] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
495] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
496] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
497] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
498] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
499] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
500] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
501] 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
502] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
503] 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.
504] 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.
505] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
506] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
507] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
508] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
509] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
510] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
511] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
512] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
513] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
514] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
515] 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
516] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
517] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
518] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
519] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
520] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
521] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
522] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
523] 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.
524] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
525] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
526] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
527] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
528] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
529] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
530] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
531] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
533] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
534] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
535] 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.
536] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
537] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
538] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
539] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
540] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
541] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
542] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
543] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
544] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
545] 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.
546] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
547] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
548] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
549] 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)
550] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
551] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
552] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
553] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
554] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
555] 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.
556] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
557] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
558] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
559] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
560] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
561] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
562] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
563] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
564] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
565] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
566] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
567] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
568] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
569] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
570] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
571] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
572] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
573] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
574] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
575] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
576] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
577] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
578] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
579] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
580] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
581] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
582] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
583] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
584] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
585] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
586] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
587] 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
588] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
589] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
590] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
591] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
592] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
593] 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.
594] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
595] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
596] 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
597] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
598] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
599] 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.
600] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.