Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
2] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
3] 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.
4] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
5] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
7] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
8] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
9] 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)
10] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
11] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
12] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
13] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
14] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
15] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
16] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
17] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
18] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
19] Commonsense is not so common.
20] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
21] 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.
22] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
23] 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.
24] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
25] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
26] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
27] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
28] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
29] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
30] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
31] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
32] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
33] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
34] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
35] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
36] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
37] 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)
38] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
39] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
40] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
41] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
42] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
43] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
44] 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
45] 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.”
46] 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.
47] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
48] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
49] 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
50] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
51] 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)
52] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
53] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
54] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
55] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
56] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
57] 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
58] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
59] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
60] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
61] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
62] 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.
63] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
64] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
65] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
66] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
67] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
68] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
69] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
70] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
71] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
72] 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
73] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
74] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
75] 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
76] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
77] 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
78] Commonsense is not so common.
79] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
80] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
81] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
82] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
83] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
84] 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
85] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
86] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
87] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
88] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
89] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
90] 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)
91] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
92] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
93] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
94] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
95] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
96] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
97] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
98] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
99] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
100] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
101] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
102] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
103] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
104] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
105] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
106] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
107] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
108] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
109] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
110] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
111] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
112] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
113] 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)
114] 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.
115] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
116] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
117] 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)
118] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
119] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
120] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
121] 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.
122] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
123] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
124] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
125] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
126] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
127] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
128] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
129] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
130] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
131] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
132] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
133] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
134] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
135] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
136] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
137] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
138] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
139] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
140] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
141] 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
142] 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.
143] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
144] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
145] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
146] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
147] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
148] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
149] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
150] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
151] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
152] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
153] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
154] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
155] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
156] 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.
157] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
158] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
159] 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.
160] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
161] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
162] 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)
163] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
164] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
165] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
166] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
167] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
168] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
169] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
170] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
171] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
172] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
173] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
174] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
175] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
176] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
177] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
178] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
179] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
180] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
181] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
182] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
183] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
184] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
185] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
186] 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)
187] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
188] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
189] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
190] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
191] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
192] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
193] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
194] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
195] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
196] 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
197] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
198] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
199] 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
200] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
201] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
202] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
203] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] 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.
205] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
206] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
207] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
208] 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
209] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
210] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
211] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
212] 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
213] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
214] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
215] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
216] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
217] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
218] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
219] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
220] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
221] 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)
222] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
223] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
224] 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.
225] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
226] 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.
227] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
228] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
229] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
230] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
231] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
232] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
233] 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
234] 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.
235] 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.
236] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
237] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
238] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
239] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
240] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
241] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
242] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
243] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
244] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
245] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
246] 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
247] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
248] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
249] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
250] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
251] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
252] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
253] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
254] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
255] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
257] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
258] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
259] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
260] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
261] 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
262] 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.
263] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
264] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
265] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
266] 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
267] 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.
268] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
269] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
270] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
271] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
272] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
273] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
274] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
275] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
276] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
277] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
278] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
279] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
280] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
281] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
282] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
283] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
284] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
285] 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
286] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
287] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
288] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
289] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
290] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
291] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
292] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
293] 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.
294] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
295] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
296] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
297] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
298] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
299] 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.
300] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
301] 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)
302] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
303] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
304] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
305] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
306] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
307] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
308] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
309] 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)
310] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
311] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
312] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
313] 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.
314] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
315] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
316] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
317] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
318] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
319] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
320] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
321] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
322] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
323] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
324] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
325] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
326] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
327] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
328] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
329] 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.
330] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
331] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
332] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
333] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
334] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
335] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
336] 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.
337] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
338] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
339] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
340] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
341] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
342] 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.
343] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
344] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
345] 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
346] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
347] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
348] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
349] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
350] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
351] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
352] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
353] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
354] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
355] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
357] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
358] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
359] 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.
360] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
361] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
362] 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
363] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
364] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
365] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
366] 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.
367] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
368] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
369] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
370] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
371] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
372] 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)
373] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
374] 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
375] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
376] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
377] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
378] 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.
379] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
380] 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.
381] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
382] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
383] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
384] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
385] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
386] 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.
387] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
388] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
389] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
390] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
391] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
392] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
393] 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)
394] 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
395] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
396] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
397] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
398] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
399] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
400] 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.
401] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
402] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
403] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
404] 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.
405] 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
406] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
407] 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)
408] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
409] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
410] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
411] 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]
412] 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.
413] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
414] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
415] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
416] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
417] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
418] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
419] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
420] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
421] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
422] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
423] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
424] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
425] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
426] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
427] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
428] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
429] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
430] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
431] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
432] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
433] 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
434] 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
435] 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
436] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
437] 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)
438] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
439] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
440] 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
441] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
442] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
443] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
444] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
445] 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 .
446] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
447] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
448] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
449] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
450] 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)
451] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
452] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
453] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
454] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
455] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
456] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
457] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
458] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
459] 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.
460] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
461] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
462] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
463] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
464] 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
465] 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.
466] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
467] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
468] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
469] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
470] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
471] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
472] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
473] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
474] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
475] 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
476] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
477] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
478] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
479] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
480] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
481] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
482] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
483] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
484] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
485] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
486] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
487] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
488] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
489] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
490] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
491] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
492] 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.
493] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
494] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
495] 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.
496] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
497] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
498] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
499] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
500] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
501] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
502] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
503] 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.
504] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
505] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
506] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
507] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
508] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
509] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
510] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
511] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
512] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
513] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
514] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
515] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
516] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
517] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
518] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
519] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
520] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
521] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
522] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
523] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
524] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
525] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
526] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
527] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
528] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
529] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
530] 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.
531] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
532] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
533] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
534] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
535] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
536] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
537] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
538] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
539] 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
540] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
541] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
542] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
543] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
544] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
545] 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.
546] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
547] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
548] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
549] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
550] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
551] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
552] 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
553] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
554] 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.
555] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
556] 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.
557] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
558] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
559] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
560] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
561] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
562] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
563] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
564] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
565] 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.
566] 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.
567] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
568] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
569] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
570] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
571] 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
572] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
573] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
574] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
575] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
576] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
577] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
578] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
579] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
580] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
581] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
582] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
583] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
584] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
585] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
586] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
587] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
588] 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
589] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
590] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
591] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
592] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
593] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
594] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
595] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
596] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
597] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
598] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
599] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
600] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.