Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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

2] 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.

3] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Walso Emerson

4] An old error is always more popular than a new truth. German Proverb.

5] God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln.

6] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool. Ambrose pratt.

7] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. Ed Howe.

8] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

9] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)

10] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain.

11] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education. Wilson Minzner.

12] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Omerson Fosdick.

13] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

14] Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks.

15] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]

16] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like. Ernest Benn.

17] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal Jean Giraudoux.

18] 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.

19] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler.

20] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything. Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

21] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin.

22] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White

23] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. e. e. Cummings.

24] 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

25] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. Thomas Hobbes.

26] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)

27] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. Peter Drucker.

28] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of William Haz litt (1778 -1830).

29] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old Ed How.

30] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Dr. O.A. Battista.

31] If you can’t convince them, confuse them. Harry S.Trumann

32] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next. Woodrow Wilson

33] 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.

34] 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.

35] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future. Paul Emile Borduas.

36] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)

37] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ? Clayton Rawson

38] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide.

39] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. Fanny Brice

40] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

41] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.

42] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).

43] There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus (540-475 BC)

44] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. Walter Lippmann.

45] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader. Tacitus (55AD 130)

46] 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

47] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison.

48] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen

49] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Brooks Adams

50] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870

51] 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

52] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives. John Mason Brown.

53] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. - Mignon Mc. Laughin.

54] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery.

55] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Mohandan Gandhi.

56] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. Bergen Evans

57] 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.

58] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me ! David Lewis Stein.

59] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Helen Rowland.

60] The goal of life is death. Sigmund Freud.

61] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency.

62] The only abnormality is the incapability to love Anais Nin.

63] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Aganta Christie.

64] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).

65] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love. Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)

66] 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.

67] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).

68] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing. George Barnard Shaw.

69] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree Ezva Pound.

70] Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks.

71] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. Witter Bynner

72] 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).

73] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. Laurence . J. Peter.

74] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements George Bernard Shaw

75] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there. Plato

76] 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.

77] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. W. I. E. Gates

78] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. William .W. Watt

79] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)

80] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous. Alexander I Solzhewitsyn

81] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. Charles Towne.

82] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. Paul Eldridge.

83] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson .

84] There is nothing new under the sun. – BIBLE

85] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

86] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. Platonicus ( Ist century BC)

87] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five. Richard M. Nixon

88] 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

89] The family is the nuclear of civilization. Will and Ariel Durant.

90] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain.

91] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity. Dr. William Menninger

92] 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.

93] 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)

94] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.

95] 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

96] When the candles are out all women are fair Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)

97] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege. Mark Twain.

98] 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]

99] 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.

100] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)

101] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Neils Bohr

102] 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

103] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).

104] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).

105] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)

106] 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.

107] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins.

108] 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.

109] 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

110] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

111] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H.L. Mencken.

112] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain.

113] 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.

114] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen.

115] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz .

116] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry.

117] The only things we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Rosevelt.

118] 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.

119] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.

120] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech. George Bernard Shaw.

121] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)

122] You can observe a lot just by watching Yogi Berra

123] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W. Ceram.

124] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana

125] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. Bertrand Russel.

126] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

127] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegnt.

128] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer.

129] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech. George Bernard Shaw.

130] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it. G.K. Chesterton.

131] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. Fanny Brice

132] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five. Richard M. Nixon

133] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein.

134] To know all things is not permitted Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)

135] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.

136] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner

137] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.

138] 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.

139] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. George Bernard Shaw.

140] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughar.

141] 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.

142] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. Sir Herbert Samuel

143] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

144] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar wilde.

145] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong. Earl of Mans field.

146] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)

147] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. Ed Howe.

148] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of William Haz litt (1778 -1830).

149] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. William .W. Watt

150] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ? Clayton Rawson

151] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. Edward Simmons.

152] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubtsard

153] The first requisite for immortality is death. Stanislaw.J. Lec

154] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Rlph Waldo Emerson.

155] People ask for criticism but they only want praise. Somerser Maugham.

156] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. Samuel Butter.

157] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool. Ambrose pratt.

158] 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

159] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler

160] 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

161] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill

162] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. James .F. Byrnes

163] 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

164] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf. Feodor Dostoevski

165] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. Laurence. J. Peter

166] 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

167] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory Alfred North White head.

168] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.

169] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby. Mary Marsh.

170] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)

171] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Will and Ariel Durant.

172] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated. William James.

173] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye Alexander Pope.

174] 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.

175] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive. Theodore Roosevelt.

176] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own. H. G. Bohn.

177] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.

178] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.

179] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

180] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars. Hobart Brown.

181] 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

182] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire.

183] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty. John. D. Rockefeller

184] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).

185] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. William Hazlitt

186] 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

187] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner

188] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).

189] 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)

190] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen. Pierre Daninos.

191] 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.

192] 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

193] 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.

194] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)

195] 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.

196] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?. The Bible

197] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

198] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

199] 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.

200] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. Willian. E .Henley

201] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something. Paul valery.

202] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive. John Cassavetes.

203] 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.

204] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler.

205] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.

206] The goal of life is death. Sigmund Freud.

207] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past. Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)

208] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. Albert Edward Wiggam.

209] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Felic Cohen

210] All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)

211] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Johathan Swift

212] 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

213] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain.

214] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure. Henrry Greber

215] 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)

216] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard. M. Baruch.

217] 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.

218] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education. Wilson Minzner.

219] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. Roy . L. Smith.

220] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte.

221] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)

222] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. Norman Vincent Peale.

223] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. H.L. Mencken.

224] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

225] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

226] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …

227] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. Walter Lippmann.

228] To know all things is not permitted Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)

229] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

230] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Bertrand Russel.

231] Man is a political animal. Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)

232] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

233] 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.

234] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience. Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

235] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln.

236] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith. Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)

237] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state. Julian Huxley.

238] The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire (1694 -1778)

239] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emersom Fosdick.

240] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. William James.

241] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

242] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. Gandhiji

243] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s. Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)

244] 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.

245] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own. Adam. L. Gordon

246] A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles. F. Kettering.

247] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. Gertrude Stein.

248] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

249] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)

250] The secret of education is respecting pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson

251] 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

252] 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

253] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own. Adam. L. Gordon

254] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

255] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)

256] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost.

257] 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

258] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread. Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)

259] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen.

260] The brighter you are the more you have not learn. Don Herold.

261] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winstan Churchill.

262] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. William James.

263] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid. Franklin. P. Jones

264] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

265] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

266] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own. Thomas Mann.

267] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt.

268] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Felix Cohem.

269] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf. Feodor Dostoevski

270] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill.

271] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people Simeon Strunsky

272] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)

273] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !” Oren Arnold.

274] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw.

275] 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)

276] The only abnormality is the incapability to love Anais Nin.

277] 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.

278] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

279] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. C.H. Parkhurst.

280] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself Earnest Jones.

281] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).

282] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

283] 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]

284] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. The old Framer’s Almanac

285] 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)

286] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence. Vermont proverb

287] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. - Martin Esslin.

288] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. Norman Vincent Peale.

289] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. Wilson Mizner

290] 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.

291] The brighter you are the more you have not learn. Don Herold.

292] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale.

293] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. P.W. Bridgman

294] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated. William James.

295] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements George Bernard Shaw

296] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud

297] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)

298] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. Edgar .A. Shoaff

299] The first requisite for immortality is death. Stanislaw.J. Lec

300] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.

301] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)

302] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. Brigitte Bardot

303] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)

304] 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.

305] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth. Adolf Hitler

306] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo

307] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)

308] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel Le Unamuno.

309] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. C.H. Parkhurst.

310] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people. James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)

311] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen. Pierre Daninos.

312] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw.

313] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor. Seneca (4BC – AD 65)

314] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people Simeon Strunsky

315] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe

316] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill

317] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)

318] A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Channing Pollock

319] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something. Paul valery.

320] 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)

321] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others. William Allen White.

322] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society. Charles Gow.

323] 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

324] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John . F. Kennedy.

325] 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)

326] 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

327] 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)

328] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. Charles Haddam Spurgeon.

329] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.

330] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.

331] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson.

332] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.

333] 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

334] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration. Walter Goodman.

335] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]

336] 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

337] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own. Thomas Mann.

338] 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)

339] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson

340] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Socrates (470? – 399 BC)

341] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.

342] 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.

343] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis

344] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.

345] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. Rabindranath Tagore.

346] 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)

347] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. e. e. Cummings.

348] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)

349] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)

350] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

351] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer

352] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

353] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

354] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive. Robert Frost.

355] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt.

356] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. Platonicus ( Ist century BC)

357] 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.

358] 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.

359] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people. James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)

360] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard shaw.

361] 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

362] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

363] Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland

364] God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln.

365] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph

366] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience. Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

367] To be like Christ is to be a Christian William Penn (1644-1718)

368] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson.

369] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde.

370] 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

371] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work. Doun Piatt.

372] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)

373] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

374] A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles. F. Kettering.

375] 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

376] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly. Irene Peter

377] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

378] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

379] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us. Sigmund frud.

380] 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)

381] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)

382] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)

383] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

384] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

385] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. Friendrich Nietzsche

386] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. Richard Aldington.

387] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Oscar Wilde.

388] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. The communist manifesto.

389] Commonsense is not so common.

390] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

391] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure. Elbert Hubbard.

392] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

393] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).

394] 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.

395] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison.

396] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Antole France

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] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).

399] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler

400] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.

401] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. George Bernard Shaw.

402] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

403] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.

404] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency.

405] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness. George Bernard Shaw.

406] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive. Theodore Roosevelt.

407] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. John Gardner.

408] 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.

409] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

410] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Gibbson Huneker.

411] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. Belgian Proverb.

412] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ? Thomas Clayton wol

413] 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

414] 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)

415] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John Gardner.

416] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.

417] Man – a being in search of meaning. Plato (427 ? 347?BC)

418] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]

419] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.

420] 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)

421] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60". Nicholas Murray Butler

422] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Dr. O.A. Battista.

423] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. Sir Herbert Samuel

424] The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).

425] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winstan Churchill.

426] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there. Martin Luther king.

427] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard

428] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes. Confucius (551 – 479 BC)

429] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

430] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Samuel Johnson

431] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horace (65 – 8 BC)

432] 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)

433] 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.

434] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)

435] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)

436] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice. Mark Twain

437] 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

438] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)

439] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. John Flavel

440] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. Wendell Phillips.

441] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)

442] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.

443] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Gibbson Huneker.

444] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw.

445] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure. Henrry Greber

446] 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.

447] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

448] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em. William Shakespeare.

449] 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

450] The secret of education is respecting pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson

451] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor. Seneca (4BC – AD 65)

452] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen

453] 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.

454] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain

455] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustin (354 – 430)

456] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose. Willian Shakespeare

457] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important. A. Edward Newton

458] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson .

459] 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

460] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next. Woodrow Wilson

461] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

462] 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.

463] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)

464] 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.

465] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do. Milton Mayor.

466] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz.

467] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. Bertrand Russel.

468] 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

469] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes. Howard. W. Newton.

470] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector. Ernest Heming way.

471] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread. Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)

472] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

473] May you all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)

474] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Mohandan Gandhi.

475] Self trust is the essence of heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

476] The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H.L. Mencken.

477] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. Joseph Wood Krutch.

478] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

479] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha Robert Heincein

480] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another. John Burroughs.

481] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money. Albert camus.

482] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

483] 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

484] The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire (1694 -1778)

485] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Lord David cecil

486] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)

487] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle (384 – 322BC)

488] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it. J. Jenkins.

489] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector. Ernest Heming way.

490] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves. Euripides (484 – 406 BC)

491] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)

492] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. Christopher Morley.

493] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

494] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horace (65 – 8 BC)

495] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge. Abraham Joshus Heschel.

496] 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

497] 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

498] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge. Ernest Hemingway

499] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.

500] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.

501] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

502] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Bishop.W.C. Magee.

503] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)

504] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo.

505] 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

506] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)

507] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

508] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law. Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)

509] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer

510] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli

511] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Nicholas chamfort.

512] Man is a social animal. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)

513] 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

514] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins Soren Kierkegaare.

515] Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana.

516] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Ambrose kitman.

517] 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.

518] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Rlph Waldo Emerson.

519] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge. Abraham Joshus Heschel.

520] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

521] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability Robert Half

522] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense. Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)

523] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. Norman Vincent Peale.

524] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Lord David cecil

525] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. Miltan Berle

526] 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.

527] 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

528] 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)

529] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith. Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)

530] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb

531] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice. Mark Twain

532] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubtsard

533] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure. Elbert Hubbard.

534] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”

535] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Alfred North White head.

536] The only things we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Rosevelt.

537] 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)

538] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

539] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw.

540] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain. A.T. W. Simeons.

541] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. James Stephens.

542] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John . F. Kennedy

543] 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.

544] 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.

545] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before. Arthur Guiterman.

546] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races. Mark Twain.

547] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha

548] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable. Duc de La Rochefoucauld.

549] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Walso Emerson

550] 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.

551] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. James .F. Byrnes

552] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt. H.L. Mencken

553] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society. John Gardner

554] 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

555] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.

556] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw.

557] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)

558] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe

559] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two. Norman Douglas.

560] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. H.A. Overstreet.

561] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement. Roy. L. Smith.

562] 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

563] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie.

564] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege. Mark Twain.

565] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole france.

566] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).

567] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there. Plato

568] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw.

569] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha Robert Heincein

570] 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)

571] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education. Konrad Lorenz

572] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly. Irene Peter

573] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain. A.T. W. Simeons.

574] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye Alexander Pope.

575] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]

576] 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.

577] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Bishop Beilby Porteus

578] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it. Calvin Coolidge

579] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard shaw.

580] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus (55? – 130?

581] 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)

582] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

583] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard. M. Baruch.

584] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument. Arther Guiter man

585] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha

586] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. Thomas Carlyle

587] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

588] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. Somerset Maugham.

589] 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.

590] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

591] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)

592] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)

593] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own. Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)

594] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. Paul Eldridge.

595] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. Miltan Berle

596] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why. Bernard. M. Baruch.

597] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. John Milter.

598] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt.

599] 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.

600] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.