Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
3] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
4] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
5] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
6] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
7] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
8] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
9] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
10] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
11] 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)
12] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
13] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
14] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
15] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
16] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
17] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
18] 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
19] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
20] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
21] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
22] 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.
23] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
24] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
25] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
26] 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
27] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
28] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
29] 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
30] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
31] 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.
32] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
33] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
34] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
35] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
36] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
37] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
38] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
39] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
40] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
41] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
42] 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.
43] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
44] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
45] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
46] 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)
47] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
48] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
49] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
50] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
51] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
52] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
53] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
54] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
55] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
56] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
57] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
58] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
59] 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
60] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
61] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
62] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
63] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
64] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
65] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
66] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
67] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
68] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
69] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
70] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
71] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
72] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
73] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
74] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
75] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
76] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
77] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
78] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
79] 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.
80] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
81] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
82] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
83] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
84] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
85] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
86] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
87] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
88] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
89] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
90] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
91] 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)
92] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
93] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
94] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
95] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
96] 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.
97] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
98] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
99] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
100] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
101] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
102] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
103] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
104] 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)
105] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
106] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
107] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
108] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
109] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
110] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
111] 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)
112] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
113] 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.
114] 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.
115] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
116] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
117] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
118] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
119] 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.
120] 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
121] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
122] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
123] 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)
124] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
125] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
126] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
127] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
128] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
129] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
130] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
131] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
132] 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
133] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
134] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
135] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
136] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
137] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
138] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
139] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
140] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
141] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
142] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
143] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
144] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
145] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
146] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
147] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
148] 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.
149] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
150] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
151] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
152] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
153] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
154] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
155] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
156] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
157] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
158] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
159] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
160] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
161] 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.
162] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
163] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
164] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
165] 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.
166] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
167] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
168] 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.
169] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
170] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
171] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
172] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
173] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
174] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
175] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
176] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
177] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
178] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
179] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
180] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
181] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
182] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
183] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
184] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
185] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
186] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
187] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
188] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
189] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
190] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
191] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
192] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
193] 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.
194] 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).
195] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
196] 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
197] 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
198] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
199] 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.
200] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
201] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
202] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
203] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
204] 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.
205] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
206] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
207] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
208] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
209] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
210] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
211] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
212] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
213] 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)
214] 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.
215] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
216] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
217] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
218] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
219] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
220] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
221] 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
222] 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.
223] 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.
224] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
225] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
226] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
227] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
228] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
229] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
230] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
231] 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.
232] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
233] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
234] 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
235] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
236] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
237] 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]
238] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
239] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
240] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
241] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
242] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
243] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
244] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
245] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
246] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
247] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
248] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
249] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
250] 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
251] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
252] 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
253] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
254] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
255] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
256] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
257] 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.
258] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
259] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
260] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
261] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
262] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
263] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
264] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
265] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
266] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
267] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
268] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
269] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
270] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
271] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
272] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
273] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
274] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
275] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
276] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
277] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
278] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
279] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
280] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
281] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
282] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
283] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
284] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
285] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
286] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
287] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
288] 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.
289] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
290] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
291] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
292] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
293] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
294] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
295] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
296] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
297] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
298] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
299] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
300] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
301] 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)
302] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
303] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
304] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
305] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
306] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
307] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
308] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
309] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
310] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
311] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
312] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
313] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
314] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
315] 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.
316] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
317] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
318] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
319] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
320] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
321] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
322] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
323] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
324] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
325] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
326] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
327] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
328] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
329] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
330] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
331] 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.
332] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
333] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
334] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
335] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
336] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
337] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
338] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
339] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
340] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
341] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
343] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
344] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
345] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
346] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
347] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
348] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
349] 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]
350] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
351] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
352] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
353] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
354] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
355] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
356] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
357] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
358] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
359] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
360] 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.
361] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
362] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
363] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
364] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
365] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
366] 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.
367] 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
368] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
369] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
370] 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.
371] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
372] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
373] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
374] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
375] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
376] 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
377] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
378] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
379] 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.
380] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
381] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
382] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
383] 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
384] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
385] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
386] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
387] 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.
388] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
389] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
390] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
391] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
392] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
393] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
394] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
395] 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
396] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
397] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
398] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
399] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
400] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
401] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
402] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
403] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
404] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
405] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
406] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
407] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
408] Commonsense is not so common.
409] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
410] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
411] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
412] 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.
413] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
414] 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
415] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
416] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
417] 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.
418] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
419] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
420] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
421] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
422] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
423] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
424] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
425] 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)
426] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
427] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
428] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
429] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
430] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
431] 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.
432] 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)
433] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
434] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
435] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
436] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
437] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
438] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
439] 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.
440] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
441] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
442] 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.
443] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
444] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
445] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
446] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
447] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
448] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
449] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
450] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
451] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
452] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
453] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
454] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
455] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
456] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
457] 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)
458] 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
459] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
460] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
461] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
462] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
463] 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
464] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
465] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
466] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
467] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
468] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
469] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
470] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
471] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
472] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
473] 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.
474] 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.”
475] 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
476] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
477] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
478] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
479] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
480] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
481] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
482] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
483] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
484] 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
485] 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.
486] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
487] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
488] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
489] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
490] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
491] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
492] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
493] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
494] 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
495] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
496] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
497] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
498] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
499] 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
500] 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.
501] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
502] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
503] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
504] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
505] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
506] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
507] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
508] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
509] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
510] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
511] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
512] 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.
513] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
514] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
515] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
516] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
517] 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
518] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
519] 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
520] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
521] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
522] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
523] 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.
524] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
525] 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)
526] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
527] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
528] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
529] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
530] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
531] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
532] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
533] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
534] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
535] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
536] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
537] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
538] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
539] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
540] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
541] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
542] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
543] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
544] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
545] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
546] 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.
547] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
548] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
549] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
550] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
551] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
552] 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
553] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
554] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
555] 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 .
556] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
557] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
558] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
559] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
560] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
561] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
562] 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
563] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
564] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
565] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
566] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
567] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
568] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
569] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
570] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
571] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
572] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
573] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
574] 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
575] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
576] 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
577] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
578] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
579] 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)
580] 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)
581] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
582] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
583] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
584] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
585] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
586] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
587] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
588] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
589] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
590] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
591] 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.
592] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
593] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
594] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
595] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
596] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
597] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
598] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
599] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
600] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)