Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
2] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
3] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
4] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
5] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
6] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
7] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
8] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
9] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
10] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
11] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
12] 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)
13] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
14] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
15] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
16] 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.
17] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
18] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
19] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
20] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
21] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
22] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
23] 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
24] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
25] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
26] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
27] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
28] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
29] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
30] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
31] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
32] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
33] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
34] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
35] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
36] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
37] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
38] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
39] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
40] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
41] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
42] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
43] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
44] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
45] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
46] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
47] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
48] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
49] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
50] 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.
51] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
52] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
53] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
54] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
55] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
56] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
57] 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
58] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
59] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
60] 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)
61] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
62] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
63] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
64] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
65] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
66] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
67] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
68] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
69] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
70] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
71] 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)
72] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
73] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
74] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
75] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
76] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
77] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
78] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
79] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
80] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
81] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
82] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
83] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
84] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
85] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
86] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
87] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
88] 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.
89] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
90] 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.
91] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
92] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
93] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
94] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
95] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
96] 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)
97] 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)
98] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
99] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
100] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
101] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
102] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
103] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
104] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
105] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
106] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
107] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
108] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
109] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
110] 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
111] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
112] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
113] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
114] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
115] 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.
116] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
117] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
118] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
119] 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.
120] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
121] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
122] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
123] 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.
124] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
125] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
126] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
127] 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.
128] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
129] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
130] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
131] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
132] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
133] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
134] 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
135] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
136] 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.
137] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
138] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
139] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
140] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
141] 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)
142] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
143] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
144] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
145] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
146] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
147] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
148] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
149] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
150] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
151] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
152] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
153] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
154] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
155] 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.
156] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
157] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
158] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
159] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
160] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
161] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
162] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
163] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
164] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
165] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
166] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
167] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
168] 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.
169] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
170] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
171] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
172] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
173] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
174] 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.
175] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
176] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
177] 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
178] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
179] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
180] 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.
181] 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
182] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
183] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
184] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
185] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
186] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
187] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
188] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
189] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
190] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
191] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
192] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
193] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
194] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
195] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
196] 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)
197] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
198] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
199] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
200] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
201] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
202] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
203] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
204] 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
205] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
206] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
207] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
208] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
209] 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
210] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
211] 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.
212] 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.
213] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
214] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
215] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
216] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
217] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
218] 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.
219] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
220] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
221] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
222] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
223] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
224] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
225] 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
226] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
227] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
228] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
229] 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.
230] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
231] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
232] 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.
233] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
234] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
235] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
236] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
237] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
238] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
239] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
240] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
241] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
242] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
243] 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
244] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
245] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
246] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
247] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
248] 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
249] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
250] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
251] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
252] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
253] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
254] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
255] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
256] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
257] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
258] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
259] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
260] 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).
261] 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)
262] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
263] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
264] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
265] 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
266] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
267] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
268] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
269] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
270] 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.
271] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
272] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
273] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
274] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
275] 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
276] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
277] 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]
278] 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.
279] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
280] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
281] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
282] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
283] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
284] 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
285] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
286] 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
287] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
288] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
289] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
290] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
291] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
292] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
293] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
294] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
295] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
296] 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
297] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
298] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
299] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
300] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
301] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
302] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
303] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
304] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
305] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
306] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
307] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
308] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
309] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
310] 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
311] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
312] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
313] 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.
314] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
315] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
316] 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)
317] 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
318] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
319] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
320] 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
321] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
322] 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.
323] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
324] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
325] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
326] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
327] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
328] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
329] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
330] 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
331] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
332] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
333] 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
334] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
335] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
336] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
337] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
338] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
339] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
340] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
341] 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.
342] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
343] 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)
344] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
345] 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.
346] 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
347] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
348] 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
349] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
350] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
351] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
352] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
353] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
354] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
355] 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
356] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
357] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
358] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
359] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
360] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
361] 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)
362] 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
363] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
364] 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.
365] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
366] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
367] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
368] Commonsense is not so common.
369] 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
370] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
371] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
372] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
373] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
374] 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.
375] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
376] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
377] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
378] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
379] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
380] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
381] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
382] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
383] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
384] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
385] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
386] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
387] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
388] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
389] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
390] 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)
391] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
392] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
393] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
394] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
395] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
396] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
397] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
398] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
399] 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)
400] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
401] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
402] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
403] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
404] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
405] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
406] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
407] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
408] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
409] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
410] 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
411] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
412] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
413] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
414] 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.
415] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
416] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
417] 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
418] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
419] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
420] 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
421] 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)
422] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
423] 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.
424] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
425] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
426] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
427] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
428] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
429] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
430] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
431] 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)
432] 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.
433] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
434] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
435] 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.
436] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
437] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
438] 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.
439] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
440] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
441] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
442] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
443] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
444] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
445] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
446] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
447] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
448] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
449] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
450] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
451] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
452] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
453] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
454] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
455] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
456] 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
457] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
458] 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.
459] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
460] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
461] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
462] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
463] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
464] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
465] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
466] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
467] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
468] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
469] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
470] 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
471] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
472] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
473] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
474] 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
475] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
476] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
477] 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
478] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
479] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
480] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
481] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
482] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
483] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
484] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
485] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
486] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
487] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
488] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
489] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
490] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
491] 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.
492] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
493] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
494] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
495] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
496] 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
497] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
498] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
499] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
500] 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.
501] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
502] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
503] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
504] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
505] 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.
506] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
507] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
508] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
509] 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.
510] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
511] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
512] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
513] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
514] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
515] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
516] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
517] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
518] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
519] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
520] 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.
521] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
522] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
523] 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.
524] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
525] 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
526] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
527] 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.
528] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
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] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
531] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
532] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
533] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
534] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
535] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
536] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
537] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
538] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
539] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
540] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
541] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
542] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
543] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
544] 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.
545] 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
546] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
547] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
548] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
549] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
550] 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.
551] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
552] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
553] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
554] 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.
555] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
556] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
557] 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.
558] 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
559] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
560] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
562] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
563] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
564] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
565] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
566] 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.
567] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
568] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
569] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
570] 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]
571] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
572] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
573] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
574] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
575] 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.
576] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
577] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
578] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
579] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
580] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
581] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
582] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
583] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
584] 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.
585] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
586] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
587] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
588] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
589] 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)
590] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
591] 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
592] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
593] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
594] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
595] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
596] 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.
597] 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.
598] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
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] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]