Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
2] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
3] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
4] 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 .
5] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
6] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
7] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
8] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
9] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
10] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
11] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
12] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
13] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
14] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
15] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
16] 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.
17] 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.
18] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
19] 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.
20] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
21] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
22] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
23] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
24] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
25] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
26] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
27] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
28] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
29] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
30] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
31] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
32] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
33] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
34] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
35] 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
36] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
37] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
38] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
39] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
40] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
41] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
42] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
43] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
44] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
45] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
46] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
47] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
48] 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
49] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
50] 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.
51] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
52] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
53] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
54] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
55] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
56] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
57] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
58] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
59] 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)
60] 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.
61] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
62] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
63] 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.
64] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
65] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
66] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
67] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
68] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
69] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
70] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
71] 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
72] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
73] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
74] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
75] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
76] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
77] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
78] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
79] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
80] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
81] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
82] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
83] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
84] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
85] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
86] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
87] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
88] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
89] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
90] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
91] 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.
92] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
93] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
94] 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
95] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
96] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
97] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
98] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
99] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
100] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
101] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
102] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
103] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
104] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
105] 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.
106] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
107] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
108] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
109] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
110] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
111] 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.
112] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
113] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
114] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
115] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
116] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
117] 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.
118] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
119] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
120] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
121] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
122] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
123] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
124] 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
125] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
126] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
127] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
128] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
129] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
130] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
131] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
132] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
133] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
134] 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)
135] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
136] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
137] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
138] 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
139] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
140] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
141] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
142] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
143] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
144] 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
145] 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
146] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
147] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
148] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
149] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
150] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
151] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
152] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
153] 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)
154] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
155] 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).
156] 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
157] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
158] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
159] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
160] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
161] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
162] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
163] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
164] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
165] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
166] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
167] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
168] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
169] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
170] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
171] 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
172] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
173] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
174] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
175] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
176] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
177] 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.
178] 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
179] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
180] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
181] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
182] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
183] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
184] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
185] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
186] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
187] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
188] 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
189] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
190] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
191] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
192] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
193] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
194] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
195] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
196] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
197] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
198] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
199] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
200] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
201] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
202] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
203] 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.
204] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
205] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
206] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
207] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
208] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
209] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
210] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
211] 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
212] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
213] 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.
214] 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.
215] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
216] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
217] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
218] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
219] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
220] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
221] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
222] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
223] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
224] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
225] 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
226] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
227] 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).
228] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
229] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
230] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
231] 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)
232] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
233] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
234] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
235] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
236] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
237] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
238] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
239] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
240] 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
241] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
242] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
243] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
244] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
245] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
246] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
247] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
248] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
249] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
250] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
251] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
252] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
253] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
254] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
255] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
256] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
257] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
258] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
259] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
260] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
261] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
262] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
263] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
264] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
265] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
266] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
267] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
268] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
269] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
270] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
271] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
272] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
273] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
274] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
275] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
276] 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)
277] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
278] 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
279] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
280] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
281] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
282] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
283] 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.
284] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
285] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
286] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
287] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
288] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
289] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
290] 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
291] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
292] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
293] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
294] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
295] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
296] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
297] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
298] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
299] 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
300] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
301] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
302] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
303] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
304] 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.
305] 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
306] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
307] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
308] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
309] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
310] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
311] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
312] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
313] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
314] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
315] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
316] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
317] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
318] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
319] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
320] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
321] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
322] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
323] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
324] 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
325] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
326] 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
327] 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.
328] 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.
329] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
330] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
331] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
332] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
333] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
334] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
335] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
336] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
337] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
338] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
339] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
340] 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
341] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
342] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
343] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
344] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
345] 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
346] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
347] 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.
348] 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)
349] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
350] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
351] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
352] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
353] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
354] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
355] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
356] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
357] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
358] 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
359] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
360] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
361] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
362] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
363] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
364] 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.
365] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
366] 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)
367] 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
368] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
369] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
370] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
371] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
372] 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.
373] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
374] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
375] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
376] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
377] 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.
378] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
379] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
380] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
381] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
382] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
383] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
384] 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.
385] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
386] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
387] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
388] 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
389] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
390] 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.
391] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
392] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
393] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
394] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
395] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
396] 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.
397] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
398] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
399] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
400] 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.
401] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
402] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
403] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
404] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
405] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
406] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
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] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
409] 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.
410] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
411] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
412] Commonsense is not so common.
413] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
414] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
415] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
416] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
417] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
418] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
419] 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.
420] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
421] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
422] 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.
423] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
424] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
425] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
426] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
427] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
428] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
429] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
430] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
431] 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
432] 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.
433] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
434] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
436] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
437] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
438] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
439] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
440] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
441] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
442] 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
443] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
444] 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
445] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
446] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
447] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
448] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
449] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
450] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
451] 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)
452] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
453] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
454] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
455] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
456] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
457] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
458] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
459] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
460] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
461] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
462] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
463] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
464] 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.
465] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
466] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
467] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
468] 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.
469] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
470] 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)
471] 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
472] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
473] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
474] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
475] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
476] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
477] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
478] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
479] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
480] 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.
481] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
482] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
483] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
484] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
485] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
486] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
487] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
488] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
489] 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
490] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
491] 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)
492] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
493] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
494] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
495] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
496] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
497] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
498] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
499] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
500] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
501] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
502] 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.
503] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
504] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
505] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
506] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
507] 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.
508] 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
509] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
510] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
511] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
512] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
513] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
514] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
515] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
516] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
517] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
518] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
519] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
520] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
521] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
522] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
523] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
524] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
525] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
526] 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)
527] 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)
528] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
529] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
530] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
531] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
532] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
533] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
534] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
535] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
536] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
537] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
538] 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.
539] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
540] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
541] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
542] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
543] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
544] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
545] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
546] 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.
547] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
548] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
549] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
550] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
551] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
552] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
553] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
554] 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.
555] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
556] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
557] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
558] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
559] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
560] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
561] 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
562] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
563] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
564] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
565] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
566] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
567] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
568] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
569] 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
570] 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)
571] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
572] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
573] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
574] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
575] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
576] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
577] 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.
578] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
579] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
580] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
581] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
582] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
583] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
584] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
585] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
586] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
587] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
588] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
589] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
590] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
591] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
592] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
593] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
594] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
595] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
596] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
597] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
598] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
599] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
600] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.