Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
2] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
3] 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.
4] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
5] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
6] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
7] 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
8] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
9] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
10] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
11] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
12] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
13] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
14] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
15] 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
16] 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.
17] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
18] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
19] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
20] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
21] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
22] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
23] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
24] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
25] 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
26] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
27] 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)
28] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
29] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
30] 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.
31] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
32] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
33] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
34] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
35] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
36] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
37] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
38] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
39] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
40] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
41] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
42] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
43] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
44] 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)
45] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
46] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
47] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
48] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
49] 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.
50] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
51] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
52] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
53] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
54] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
55] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
56] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
57] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
58] 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
59] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
60] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
61] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
62] 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
63] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
64] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
65] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
66] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
67] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
68] 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
69] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
70] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
71] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
72] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
73] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
74] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
75] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
76] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
77] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
78] 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
79] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
80] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
81] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
82] 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.
83] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
84] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
85] 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.
86] 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.
87] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
88] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
89] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
90] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
91] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
92] 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)
93] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
94] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
95] 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
96] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
97] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
98] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
99] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
100] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
101] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
102] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
103] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
104] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
105] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
106] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
107] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
108] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
109] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
110] 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.
111] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
112] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
113] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
114] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
115] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
116] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
117] 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)
118] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
119] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
120] 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
121] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
122] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
123] 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.
124] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
125] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
126] 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.
127] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
128] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
129] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
130] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
131] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
132] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
133] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
134] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
135] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
136] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
137] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
138] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
139] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
140] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
141] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
142] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
143] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
144] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
145] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
146] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
147] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
148] 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
149] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
150] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
151] 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.
152] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
153] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
154] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
155] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
156] 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.
157] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
158] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
159] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
160] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
161] 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.
162] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
163] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
164] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
165] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
166] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
167] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
168] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
169] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
170] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
171] 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.
172] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
173] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
174] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
175] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
176] 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
177] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
178] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
179] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
180] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
181] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
182] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
183] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
184] 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)
185] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
186] 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)
187] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
188] 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
189] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
190] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
191] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
192] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
193] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
194] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
195] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
196] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
197] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
198] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
199] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
200] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
201] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
202] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
203] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
204] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
205] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
206] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
207] 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
208] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
209] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
210] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
211] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
212] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
213] 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)
214] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
215] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
216] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
217] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
218] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
219] 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
220] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
221] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
222] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
223] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
224] 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.
225] 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.
226] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
227] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
228] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
229] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
230] 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
231] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
232] 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.
233] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
234] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
235] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
236] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
237] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
238] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
239] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
240] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
241] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
242] 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
243] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
244] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
245] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
246] 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.
247] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
248] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
249] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
250] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
251] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
252] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
253] 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.
254] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
255] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
256] 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.
257] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
258] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
259] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
260] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
261] 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.
262] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
263] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
264] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
265] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
266] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
267] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
268] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
269] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
270] 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)
271] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
272] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
273] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
274] 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)
275] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
276] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
277] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
278] 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.
279] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
280] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
281] 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.
282] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
283] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
284] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
285] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
286] 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
287] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
288] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
289] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
290] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
291] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
292] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
293] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
294] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
295] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
296] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
297] 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
298] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
299] 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
300] 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.
301] 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.
302] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
303] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
304] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
305] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
306] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
307] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
308] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
309] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
310] 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.
311] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
312] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
313] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
314] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
315] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
316] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
317] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
318] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
319] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
320] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
321] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
322] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
323] 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.
324] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
325] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
326] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
327] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
328] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
329] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
330] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
331] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
332] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
333] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
334] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
335] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
336] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
337] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
338] 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.
339] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
340] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
341] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
343] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
344] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
345] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
346] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
347] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
348] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
349] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
350] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
351] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
352] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
353] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
354] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
355] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
356] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
357] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
358] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
359] 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)
360] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
361] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
362] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
363] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
364] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
365] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
366] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
367] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
368] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
369] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
370] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
372] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
373] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
374] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
375] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
376] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
377] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
378] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
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] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
381] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
382] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
383] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
384] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
385] 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
386] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
387] 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.
388] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
389] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
390] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
391] 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
392] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
393] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
394] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
395] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
396] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
397] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
398] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
399] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
400] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
401] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
402] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
403] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
404] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
405] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
406] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
407] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
408] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
409] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
410] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
411] 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.
412] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
413] 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
414] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
415] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
416] 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.
417] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
418] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
419] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
420] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
421] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
422] 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
423] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
424] 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.
425] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
426] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
427] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
428] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
429] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
430] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
431] 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
432] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
433] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
434] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
435] 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)
436] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
437] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
438] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
439] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
440] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
441] 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)
442] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
443] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
444] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
445] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
446] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
447] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
448] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
449] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
450] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
451] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
452] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
453] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
454] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
455] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
456] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
457] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
458] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
459] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
460] 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
461] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
462] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
463] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
464] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
465] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
466] 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.
467] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
468] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
469] 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.
470] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
471] 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)
472] 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.
473] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
474] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
475] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
476] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
477] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
478] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
479] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
480] 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.
481] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
482] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
483] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
484] 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.
485] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
487] 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 .
488] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
489] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
490] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
491] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
492] 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.
493] 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.
494] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
495] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
496] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
497] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
498] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
499] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
500] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
501] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
502] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
503] 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.
504] 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.
505] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
506] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
507] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
508] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
509] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
510] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
511] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
512] 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
513] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
514] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
515] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
516] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
517] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
518] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
519] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
520] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
521] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
522] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
523] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
524] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
525] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
526] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
527] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
528] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
529] 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)
530] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
531] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
532] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
533] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
534] 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)
535] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
536] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
537] 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.
538] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
539] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
540] 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
541] 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.
542] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
543] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
544] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
545] 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.
546] 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.
547] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
548] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
549] 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.
550] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
551] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
552] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
553] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
554] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
555] 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
556] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
557] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
558] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
559] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
560] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
561] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
562] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
563] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
564] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
565] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
566] 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.
567] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
568] 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)
569] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
570] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
571] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
572] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
573] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
574] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
575] 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.
576] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
577] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
578] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
579] 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)
580] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
581] 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
582] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
583] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
584] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
585] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
586] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
587] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
588] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
589] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
590] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
591] 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
592] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
593] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
594] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
595] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
596] 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)
597] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
598] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
599] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
600] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.