Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
3] 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.
4] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
5] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
6] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
7] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
8] 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.
9] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
10] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
11] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
12] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
13] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
14] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
15] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
16] 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
17] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
18] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
19] 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)
20] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
21] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
22] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
23] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
24] 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.
25] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
26] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
27] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
28] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
29] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
30] 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.
31] 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
32] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
33] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
34] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
35] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
36] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
37] 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
38] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
39] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
40] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
41] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
42] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
43] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
44] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
45] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
46] 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)
47] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
48] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
49] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
50] 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.
51] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
52] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
53] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
54] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
55] 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.
56] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
57] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
58] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
59] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
60] 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.
61] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
62] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
63] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
64] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
65] 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.
66] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
67] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
68] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
69] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
70] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
71] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
72] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
73] 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).
74] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
75] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
76] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
77] 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
78] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
79] 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
80] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
81] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
82] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
83] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
84] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
85] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
86] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
87] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
88] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
89] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
90] 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)
91] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
92] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
93] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
94] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
95] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
96] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
97] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
99] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
100] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
101] 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
102] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
103] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
104] 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.
105] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
106] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
107] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
108] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
109] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
110] 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
111] 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.
112] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
113] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
114] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
115] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
116] 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.
117] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
118] 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
119] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
120] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
121] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
122] 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)
123] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
124] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
125] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
126] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
127] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
128] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
129] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
130] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
131] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
132] 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
133] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
134] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
135] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
136] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
137] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
138] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
140] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
141] 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.
142] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
143] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
144] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
145] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
146] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
147] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
148] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
149] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
150] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
151] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
152] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
153] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
154] 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.
155] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
156] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
157] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
158] 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
159] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
160] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
161] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
162] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
163] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
164] 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
165] 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)
166] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
167] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
168] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
169] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
170] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
171] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
172] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
173] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
174] 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.
175] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
176] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
177] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
178] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
179] 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.
180] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
181] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
182] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
183] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
184] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
185] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
186] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
187] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
188] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
189] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
190] 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.
191] 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.
192] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
193] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
194] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
195] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
196] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
197] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
198] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
199] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
200] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
201] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
202] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
203] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
204] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
205] 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.
206] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
207] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
208] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
209] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
210] 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
211] 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
212] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
213] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
214] 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)
215] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
216] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
217] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
218] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
219] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
220] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
221] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
222] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
223] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
224] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
225] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
226] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
227] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
228] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
229] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
230] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
231] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
232] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
233] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
234] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
235] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
236] 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 .
237] 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
238] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
239] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
240] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
241] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
242] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
243] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
244] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
245] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
246] 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.
247] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
248] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
249] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
250] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
251] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
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] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
254] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
255] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
256] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
257] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
258] 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
259] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
260] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
261] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
262] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
263] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
264] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
265] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
266] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
267] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
268] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
269] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
270] 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.
271] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
272] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
273] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
274] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
275] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
276] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
277] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
278] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
279] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
280] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
281] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
282] 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
283] 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.
284] 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
285] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
286] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
287] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
288] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
289] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
290] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
291] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
292] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
293] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
294] 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
295] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
296] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
297] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
298] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
299] 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)
300] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
301] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
302] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
303] 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
304] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
305] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
306] 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
307] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
308] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
309] 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
310] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
311] 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 .
312] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
313] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
314] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
315] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
316] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
317] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
318] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
319] 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)
320] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
321] 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.”
322] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
323] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
324] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
325] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
326] 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.
327] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
328] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
329] 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.
330] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
331] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
332] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
333] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
334] 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.
335] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
336] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
337] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
338] 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
339] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
340] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
341] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
342] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
343] 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
344] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
345] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
346] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
347] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
348] 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)
349] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
350] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
351] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
352] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
353] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
354] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
355] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
356] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
357] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
358] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
359] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
360] 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.
361] 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)
362] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
363] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
364] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
365] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
366] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
367] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
368] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
369] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
370] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
371] 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
372] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
373] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
374] 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)
375] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
376] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
377] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
378] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
379] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
380] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
381] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
382] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
383] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
384] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
385] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
386] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
387] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
388] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
389] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
390] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
391] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
392] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
393] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
394] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
395] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
396] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
397] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
398] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
399] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
400] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
401] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
402] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
403] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
404] 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
405] 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)
406] 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)
407] 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).
408] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
409] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
410] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
411] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
412] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
413] 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)
414] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
415] 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
416] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
417] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
418] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
419] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
420] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
421] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
422] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
423] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
424] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
425] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
426] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
427] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
428] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
429] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
430] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
431] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
432] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
433] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
434] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
435] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
436] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
437] 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.
438] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
439] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
440] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
441] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
442] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
443] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
444] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
445] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
446] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
447] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
448] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
449] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
450] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
451] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
452] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
453] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
454] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
455] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
456] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
457] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
458] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
459] 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.
460] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
461] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
462] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
463] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
464] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
465] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
466] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
467] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
468] 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.
469] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
470] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
471] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
472] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
473] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
474] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
475] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
476] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
477] 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
478] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
479] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
480] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
481] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
482] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
483] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
484] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
485] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
486] 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.
487] 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.
488] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
489] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
490] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
491] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
492] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
493] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
494] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
495] 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)
496] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
497] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
498] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
499] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
500] 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
501] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
502] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
503] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
504] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
505] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
506] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
507] 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
508] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
509] 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
510] 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.
511] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
512] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
513] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
514] 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.
515] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
516] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
517] 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.
518] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
519] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
520] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
521] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
522] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
523] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
524] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
525] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
526] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
527] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
528] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
529] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
530] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
531] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
532] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
533] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
534] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
535] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
536] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
537] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
538] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
539] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
540] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
541] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
542] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
543] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
545] Commonsense is not so common.
546] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
547] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
548] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
549] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
550] 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.”
551] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
552] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
553] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
554] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
555] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
556] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
557] 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
558] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
559] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
560] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
561] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
562] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
563] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
564] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
565] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
566] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
567] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
568] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
569] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
570] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
571] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
572] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
573] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
574] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
575] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
576] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
577] 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
578] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
579] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
580] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
581] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
582] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
583] 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
584] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
585] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
586] 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.
587] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
588] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
589] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
590] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
591] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
592] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
593] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
594] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
595] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
596] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
597] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
598] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
599] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
600] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.