Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
2] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
3] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
4] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
5] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
6] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
7] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
8] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
9] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
10] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
11] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
12] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
13] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
14] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
15] 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
16] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
17] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
18] 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.
19] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
20] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
21] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
22] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
23] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
24] 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
25] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
26] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
27] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
28] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
29] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
30] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
31] 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.
32] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
33] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
34] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
35] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
36] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
37] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
38] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
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] 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
41] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
42] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
43] 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.
44] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
45] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
46] 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.
47] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
48] 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.
49] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
50] 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
51] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
52] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
53] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
54] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
55] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
56] 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.
57] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
58] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
59] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
60] 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
61] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
62] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
63] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
64] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
65] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
66] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
67] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
68] 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)
69] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
70] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
71] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
72] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
73] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
74] 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.
75] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
76] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
77] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
78] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
79] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
80] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
81] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
82] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
83] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
84] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
85] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
86] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
87] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
88] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
89] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
90] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
91] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
92] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
93] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
94] 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
95] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
96] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
97] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
98] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
99] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
100] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
101] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
102] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
103] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
104] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
105] 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
106] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
107] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
108] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
109] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
110] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
111] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
112] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
113] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
114] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
115] 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)
116] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
117] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
118] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
119] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
120] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
121] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
122] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
123] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
124] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
125] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
126] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
127] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
128] 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.
129] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
130] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
131] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
132] Commonsense is not so common.
133] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
134] 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
135] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
136] 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.
137] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
138] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
139] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
140] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
141] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
142] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
143] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
144] 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.
145] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
146] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
147] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
148] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
149] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
150] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
151] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
152] 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
153] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
154] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
155] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
156] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
157] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
158] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
159] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
160] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
161] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
162] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
163] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
164] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
165] 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
166] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
167] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
168] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
169] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
170] 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
171] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
172] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
173] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
174] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
175] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
176] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
177] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
178] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
179] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
180] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
181] 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.
182] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
183] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
184] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
185] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
186] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
187] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
188] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
189] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
190] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
191] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
192] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
193] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
194] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
195] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
196] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
197] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
198] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
199] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
200] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
201] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
202] 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
203] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
204] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
205] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
206] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
207] 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
208] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
209] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
210] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
211] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
212] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
213] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
214] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
215] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
216] 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
217] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
218] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
219] 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
220] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
221] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
222] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
223] 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)
224] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
225] 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
226] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
227] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
228] 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.
229] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
230] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
231] 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)
232] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
233] 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
234] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
235] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
236] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
237] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
238] 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]
239] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
240] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
241] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
242] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
243] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
244] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
245] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
246] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
247] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
248] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
249] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
250] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
251] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
252] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
253] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
254] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
255] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
256] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
257] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
258] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
259] 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)
260] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
261] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
262] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
263] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
264] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
265] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
266] 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
267] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
268] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
269] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
270] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
271] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
272] 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.
273] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
274] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
275] 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.
276] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
277] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
278] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
279] 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.
280] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
281] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
282] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
283] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
284] 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.
285] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
286] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
287] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
288] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
289] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
290] 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.
291] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
292] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
293] 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
294] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
295] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
296] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
297] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
298] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
299] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
300] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
301] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
302] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
303] 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 .
304] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
305] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
306] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
307] 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.
308] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
309] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
310] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
311] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
312] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
313] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
314] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
315] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
316] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
317] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
318] 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.
319] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
320] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
321] 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
322] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
323] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
324] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
325] 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)
326] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
327] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
328] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
329] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
330] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
331] 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.
332] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
333] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
334] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
335] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
336] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
337] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
338] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
339] 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
340] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
341] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
342] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
343] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
344] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
345] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
346] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
347] 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.
348] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
349] 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.
350] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
351] 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.
352] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
353] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
354] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
355] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
356] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
357] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
358] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
359] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
360] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
361] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
362] 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
363] 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.
364] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
365] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
366] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
367] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
368] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
369] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
370] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
371] 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.
372] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
373] 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
374] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
375] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
376] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
377] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
378] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
379] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
380] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
381] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
382] 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.
383] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
384] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
385] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
386] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
387] 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.
388] 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
389] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
390] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
391] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
392] 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)
393] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
394] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
395] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
396] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
397] 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.
398] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
399] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
400] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
401] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
402] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
403] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
404] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
405] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
406] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
407] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
408] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
409] 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
410] 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.
411] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
412] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
413] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
414] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
415] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
416] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
417] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
418] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
419] 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
420] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
421] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
422] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
423] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
424] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
425] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
426] 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
427] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
428] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
429] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
430] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
431] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
432] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
433] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
434] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
435] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
436] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
437] 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.
438] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
439] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
440] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
441] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
442] 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.
443] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
444] 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
445] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
446] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
447] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
448] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
449] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
450] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
451] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
452] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
453] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
454] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
455] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
456] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
457] 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
458] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
459] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
460] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
461] 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
462] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
463] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
464] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
465] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
466] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
467] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
468] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
469] 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
470] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
471] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
472] 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
473] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
474] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
475] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
476] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
477] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
478] 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)
479] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
480] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
481] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
482] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
483] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
484] 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.
485] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
486] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
487] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
488] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
489] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
490] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
491] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
492] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
493] 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
494] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
495] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
496] 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)
497] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
498] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
499] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
500] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
501] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
502] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
503] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
504] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
505] 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.
506] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
507] 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.
508] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
509] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
510] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
511] 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)
512] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
513] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
514] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
515] Commonsense is not so common.
516] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
517] 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.
518] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
519] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
520] 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.
521] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
522] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
523] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
524] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
525] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
526] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
527] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
528] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
529] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
530] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
531] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
532] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
533] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
534] 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.
535] 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.
536] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
537] 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)
538] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
539] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
540] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
541] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
542] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
543] 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.
544] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
545] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
546] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
547] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
548] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
549] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
550] 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).
551] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
552] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
553] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
554] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
555] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
556] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
557] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
558] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
559] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
560] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
561] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
562] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
563] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
564] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
565] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
566] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
567] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
568] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
569] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
570] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
571] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
572] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
573] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
574] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
575] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
576] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
577] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
578] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
579] 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
580] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
581] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
582] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
583] 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
584] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
585] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
586] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
587] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
588] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
589] 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.
590] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
591] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
592] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
593] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
594] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
595] 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.
596] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
597] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
598] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
599] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
600] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.