Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
2] 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.
3] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
4] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
5] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
6] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
7] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
8] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
9] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
10] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
11] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
12] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
13] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
14] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
15] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
16] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
17] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
18] 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
19] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
20] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
21] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
22] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
23] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
24] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
25] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
26] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
27] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
28] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
29] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
30] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
31] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
33] 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.
34] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
35] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
36] 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)
37] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
38] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
39] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
40] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
41] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
42] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
43] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
44] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
45] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
46] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
47] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
48] 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.
49] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
50] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
51] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
52] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
53] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
54] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
55] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
56] 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.
57] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
58] 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.
59] 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.
60] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
61] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
62] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
63] 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.
64] 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.
65] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
66] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
67] 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).
68] 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
69] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
70] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
71] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
72] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
73] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
74] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
75] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
76] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
77] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
78] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
79] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
80] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
81] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
82] 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.
83] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
84] 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.
85] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
86] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
87] 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.
88] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
89] 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.
90] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
91] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
92] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
93] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
94] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
95] 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
96] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
97] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
98] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
99] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
100] 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)
101] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
102] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
103] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
104] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
105] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
106] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
107] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
108] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
109] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
110] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
111] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
112] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
113] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
114] 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)
115] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
116] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
117] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
118] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
119] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
120] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
121] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
122] 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)
123] 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
124] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
125] 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
126] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
127] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
128] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
129] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
130] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
131] 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.
132] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
133] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
134] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
135] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
136] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
137] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
138] 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.
139] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
140] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
141] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
142] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
143] 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
144] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
145] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
146] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
147] 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)
148] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
149] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
150] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
151] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
153] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
154] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
155] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
156] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
157] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
158] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
159] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
160] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
161] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
162] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
163] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
164] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
165] 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
166] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
167] 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.
168] 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
169] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
170] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
171] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
172] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
173] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
174] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
175] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
176] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
177] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
178] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
179] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
180] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
181] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
182] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
183] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
184] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
185] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
186] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
187] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
188] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
189] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
190] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
191] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
192] 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.
193] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
194] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
195] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
196] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
197] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
198] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
199] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
200] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
201] 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.
202] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
203] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
204] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
205] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
206] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
207] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
208] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
209] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
210] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
211] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
212] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
213] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
214] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
215] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
216] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
217] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
218] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
219] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
220] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
221] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
222] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
223] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
224] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
225] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
226] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
227] 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)
228] 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.
229] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
230] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
231] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
232] 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.
233] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
234] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
235] 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
236] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
237] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
238] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
239] 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
240] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
241] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
242] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
243] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
244] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
245] 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
246] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
247] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
248] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
249] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
250] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
251] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
252] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
253] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
254] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
255] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
256] 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.
257] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
258] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
259] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
260] 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
261] 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.
262] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
263] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
264] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
265] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
266] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
267] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
268] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
269] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
270] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
271] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
272] 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.
273] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
274] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
275] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
276] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
277] 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.
278] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
279] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
280] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
281] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
282] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
283] 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
284] 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.
285] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
286] 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)
287] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
288] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
289] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
290] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
291] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
292] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
293] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
294] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
295] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
296] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
297] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
298] 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
299] 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
300] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
301] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
302] 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.
303] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
304] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
305] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
306] 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)
307] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
308] 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
309] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
310] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
311] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
312] 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.
313] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
314] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
315] 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.
316] 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.
317] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
318] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
319] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
320] 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)
321] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
322] 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
323] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
324] 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.
325] 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.
326] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
327] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
328] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
329] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
330] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
331] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
332] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
333] 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)
334] 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.
335] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
336] 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.
337] 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
338] 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
339] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
340] 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)
341] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
342] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
343] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
344] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
345] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
346] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
347] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
348] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
349] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
350] 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)
351] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
352] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
353] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
354] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
355] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
356] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
357] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
358] 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
359] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
360] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
361] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
362] 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.
363] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
364] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
365] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
366] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
367] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
368] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
369] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
370] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
371] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
372] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
373] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
374] 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.
375] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
376] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
377] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
378] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
379] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
380] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
381] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
382] 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
383] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
384] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
385] 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)
386] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
387] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
388] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
389] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
390] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
391] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
392] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
393] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
394] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
395] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
396] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
397] 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.
398] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
399] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
400] 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
401] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
402] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
403] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
404] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
405] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
406] 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
407] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
408] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
409] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
410] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
411] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
412] 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.
413] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
414] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
415] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
416] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
417] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
418] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
419] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
420] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
421] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
422] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
423] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
424] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
425] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
426] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
427] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
428] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
429] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
430] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
431] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
432] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
433] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
434] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
435] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
436] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
437] 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
438] 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
439] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
440] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
441] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
442] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
443] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
444] 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.
445] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
446] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
447] 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
448] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
449] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
450] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
451] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
452] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
453] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
454] 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
455] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
456] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
457] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
458] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
459] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
460] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
461] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
462] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
463] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
464] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
465] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
466] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
467] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
468] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
469] 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.
470] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
471] 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
472] 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.
473] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
474] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
475] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
476] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
477] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
478] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
479] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
480] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
481] 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.
482] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
483] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
484] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
485] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
486] 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)
487] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
488] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
489] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
490] 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.
491] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
492] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
493] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
494] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
495] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
496] 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.
497] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
498] 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.
499] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
500] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
501] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
502] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
503] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
504] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
505] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
506] 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
507] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
508] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
509] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
510] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
511] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
512] 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.
513] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
514] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
515] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
516] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
517] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
518] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
519] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
520] 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.
521] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
522] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
523] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
524] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
525] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
526] 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.
527] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
528] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
529] 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.
530] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
531] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
532] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
533] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
534] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
535] 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
536] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
537] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
538] 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.
539] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
540] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
541] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
542] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
543] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
544] 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
545] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
546] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
547] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
548] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
549] 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.
550] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
551] 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)
552] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
553] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
554] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
555] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
556] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
557] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
558] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
559] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
560] 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.
561] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
562] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
563] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
564] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
565] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
566] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
567] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
568] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
569] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
570] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
571] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
572] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
573] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
574] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
575] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
576] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
577] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
578] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
579] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
580] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
581] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
582] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
583] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
584] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
585] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
586] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
587] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
588] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
589] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
590] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
591] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
592] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
593] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
594] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
595] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
596] 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
597] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
598] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
599] 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
600] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.