Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
2] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
3] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
4] 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
5] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
6] 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.
7] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
8] 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.
9] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
10] 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
11] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
12] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
13] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
14] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
15] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
16] 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)
17] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
18] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
19] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
20] 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).
21] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
22] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
23] 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
24] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
25] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
26] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
27] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
28] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
29] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
30] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
31] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
32] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
33] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
34] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
35] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
36] Commonsense is not so common.
37] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
38] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39] 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
40] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
41] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
42] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
43] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
44] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
45] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
46] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
47] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
48] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
49] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
50] 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)
51] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
52] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
53] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
54] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
55] 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.
56] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
57] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
58] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
59] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
60] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
61] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
62] 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.
63] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
64] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
65] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
66] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
67] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
68] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
69] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
70] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
71] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
72] 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.
73] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
74] 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.
75] 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.
76] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
77] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
78] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
79] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
80] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
81] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
82] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
83] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
84] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
85] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
86] 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.
87] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
88] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
89] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
90] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
91] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
92] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
93] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
94] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
95] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
96] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
97] 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
98] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
99] 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
100] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
101] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
102] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
103] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
104] 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
105] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
106] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
107] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
108] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
109] 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)
110] 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.
111] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
112] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
113] 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)
114] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
115] 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
116] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
117] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
118] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
119] 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.
120] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
121] 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)
122] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
123] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
124] 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)
125] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
126] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
127] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
128] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
129] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
130] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
131] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
132] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
133] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
134] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
135] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
136] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
137] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
138] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
139] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
140] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
141] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
142] 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)
143] 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.
144] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
145] 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).
146] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
147] 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
148] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
149] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
150] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
151] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
152] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
153] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
154] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
155] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
156] 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]
157] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
158] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
159] 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.
160] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
161] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
162] 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.
163] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
164] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
165] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
166] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
167] 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.
168] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
169] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
170] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
171] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
172] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
173] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
174] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
175] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
176] 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.
177] 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.
178] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
179] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
180] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
181] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
182] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
183] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
184] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
185] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
186] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
187] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
188] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
189] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
190] 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
191] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
192] 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)
193] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
194] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
195] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
196] 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
197] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
198] 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
199] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
200] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
201] 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
202] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
203] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
204] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
205] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
206] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
207] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
208] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
209] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
210] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
211] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
212] 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.
213] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
214] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
215] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
216] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
217] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
218] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
219] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
220] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
221] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
222] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
223] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
224] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
225] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
226] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
227] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
228] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
229] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
230] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
231] 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.
232] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
233] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
234] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
235] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
236] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
237] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
238] 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)
239] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
240] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
241] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
242] 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
243] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
244] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
245] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
246] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
247] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
248] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
249] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
250] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
251] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
252] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
253] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
254] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
255] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
256] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
257] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
258] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
259] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
260] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
261] 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.
262] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
263] 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.
264] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
265] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
266] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
267] 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)
268] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
269] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
270] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
271] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
272] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
273] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
274] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
275] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
276] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
277] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
278] 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.
279] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
280] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
281] 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
282] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
283] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
284] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
285] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
286] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
287] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
288] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
289] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
290] 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
291] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
292] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
293] 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 .
294] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
295] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
296] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
297] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
298] 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
299] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
300] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
301] 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.
302] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
303] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
304] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
305] 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).
306] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
307] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
308] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
309] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
310] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
311] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
312] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
313] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
314] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
315] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
316] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
317] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
318] 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
319] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
320] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
321] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
322] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
323] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
324] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
325] 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.
326] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
327] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
328] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
329] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
330] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
331] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
332] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
333] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
334] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
335] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
336] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
337] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
338] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
339] 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.
340] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
341] 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)
342] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
343] 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)
344] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
345] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
346] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
347] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
348] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
349] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
350] 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
351] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
352] 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
353] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
354] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
355] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
356] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
357] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
358] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
359] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
360] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
361] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
362] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
363] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
364] 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
365] 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.
366] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
367] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
368] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
369] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
370] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
371] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
372] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] 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
374] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
375] 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.
376] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
377] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
378] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
379] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
380] 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)
381] 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.
382] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
383] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
384] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
385] 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.
386] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
387] 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.
388] 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)
389] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
390] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
391] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
392] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
393] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
394] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
395] 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
396] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
397] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
398] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
399] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
400] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
401] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
402] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
403] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
404] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
405] 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.
406] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
407] 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
408] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
409] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
410] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
411] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
412] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
413] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
414] 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
415] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
416] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
417] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
418] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
419] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
420] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
421] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
422] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
423] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
424] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
425] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
426] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
427] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
428] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
429] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
430] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
431] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
432] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
433] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
434] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
435] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
436] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
437] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
438] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
439] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
440] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
441] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
442] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
443] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
444] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
445] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
446] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
447] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
448] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
449] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
450] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
451] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
452] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
453] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
454] 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)
455] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
456] 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
457] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
458] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
459] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
460] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
461] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
462] 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).
463] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
464] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
465] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
466] 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
467] 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.
468] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
469] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
470] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
471] 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.
472] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
473] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
474] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
475] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
476] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
477] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
478] 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.
479] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
480] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
481] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
482] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
483] 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.
484] 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
485] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
486] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
487] 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.
488] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
489] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
490] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
491] 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.
492] 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.
493] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
494] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
495] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
496] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
497] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
498] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
499] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
500] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
501] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
502] 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
503] 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.
504] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
505] 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
506] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
507] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
508] 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.
509] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
510] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
511] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
512] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
513] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
514] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
515] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
516] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
517] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
518] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
519] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
520] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
521] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
522] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
523] 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)
524] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
525] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
526] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
527] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
528] 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
529] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
530] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
531] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
532] 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.
533] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
534] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
535] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
536] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
537] 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.
538] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
539] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
540] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
541] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
542] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
543] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
544] 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.
545] 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.
546] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
547] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
548] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
549] 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
550] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
551] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
552] 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.
553] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
554] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
555] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
556] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
557] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
558] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
559] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
560] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
561] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
562] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
563] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
564] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
565] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
566] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
567] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
568] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
569] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
570] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
571] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
572] 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]
573] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
574] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
575] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
576] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
577] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
578] 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
579] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
580] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
581] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
582] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
583] 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
584] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
585] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
586] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
587] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
588] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
589] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
590] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
591] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
592] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
593] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
594] 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.
595] 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
596] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
597] 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
598] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
599] 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.
600] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.