Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
2] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
3] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
4] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
5] 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.
6] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
7] 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.
8] 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
9] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
10] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
11] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
12] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
13] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
14] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
15] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
16] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
17] 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
18] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
19] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
20] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
21] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
22] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
23] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
25] 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.
26] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
27] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
28] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
29] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
30] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
31] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
32] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
33] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
34] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
35] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
36] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
37] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
38] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
39] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
40] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
41] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
42] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
43] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
44] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
45] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
46] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
47] 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
48] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
49] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
50] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
51] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
52] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
53] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
54] 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.
55] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
56] 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.
57] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
58] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
59] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
60] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
61] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
62] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
63] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
64] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
65] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
66] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
67] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
68] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
69] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
70] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
71] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
72] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
73] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
74] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
75] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
76] 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.
77] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
78] 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.
79] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
80] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
81] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
82] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
83] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
84] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
85] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
86] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
87] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
88] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
89] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
90] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
91] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
92] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
93] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
94] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
95] 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)
96] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
97] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
98] 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)
99] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
100] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
101] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
102] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
103] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
104] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
105] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
106] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
107] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
108] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
109] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
110] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
111] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
112] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
113] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
114] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
115] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
116] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
117] 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
118] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
119] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
120] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
121] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
122] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
123] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
124] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
125] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
126] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
127] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
128] 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.
129] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
130] 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
131] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
132] 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.
133] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
134] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
135] 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
136] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
137] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
138] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
139] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
140] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
141] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
142] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
143] 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
144] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
145] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
146] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
147] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
148] 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 .
149] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
150] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
151] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
152] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
153] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
154] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
155] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
156] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
157] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
158] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
159] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
160] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
161] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
162] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
163] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
164] 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
165] 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)
166] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
167] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
168] 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
169] 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
170] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
171] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
172] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
173] 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.
174] 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.
175] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
176] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
177] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
178] 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
179] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
180] 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.
181] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
182] 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.
183] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
184] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
185] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
186] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
187] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
188] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
189] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
190] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
191] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
192] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
193] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
194] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
195] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
196] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
197] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
198] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
199] 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
200] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
201] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
202] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
203] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
205] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
206] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
207] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
208] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
209] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
210] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
211] 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)
212] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
213] 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
214] 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.
215] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
216] 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
217] 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.
218] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
219] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
220] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
221] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
222] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
223] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
224] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
225] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
226] 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.
227] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
228] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
229] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
230] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
231] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
232] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
233] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
234] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
235] 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.
236] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
237] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
238] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
239] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
240] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
241] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
242] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
243] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
244] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
245] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
246] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
247] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
248] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
249] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
250] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
251] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
252] 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.
253] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
254] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
255] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
256] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
257] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
258] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
259] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
260] 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).
261] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
262] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
263] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
264] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
265] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
266] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
267] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
268] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
269] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
270] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
271] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
272] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
273] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
274] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
275] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
276] 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
277] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
278] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
279] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
280] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
281] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
282] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
283] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
284] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
285] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
286] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
287] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
288] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
289] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
290] 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
291] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
292] 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
293] 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.
294] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
295] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
296] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
297] 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.
298] 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.
299] 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.
300] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
301] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
302] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
303] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
304] 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
305] 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.
306] 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)
307] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
308] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
309] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
310] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
311] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
312] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
313] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
314] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
315] 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.
316] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
317] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
318] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
319] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
320] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
321] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
322] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
323] 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
324] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
325] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
326] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
327] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
328] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
329] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
330] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
331] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
332] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
333] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
334] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
335] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
336] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
337] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
338] 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.
339] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
340] 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)
341] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
342] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
343] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
344] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
345] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
346] 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.
347] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
348] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
349] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
350] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
351] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
352] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
353] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
354] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
355] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
356] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
357] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
358] 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
359] 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
360] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
361] 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)
362] 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.
363] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
364] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
365] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
366] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
367] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
368] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
369] 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.
370] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
372] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
374] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
375] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
376] 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
377] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
378] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
379] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
380] 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)
381] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
382] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
383] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
384] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
385] 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.”
386] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
387] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
388] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
389] 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.
390] 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.
391] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
392] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
393] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
394] 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.
395] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
396] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
397] 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]
398] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
399] 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]
400] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
401] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
402] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
403] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
404] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
405] 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.
406] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
407] 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.
408] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
409] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
410] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
411] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
412] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
413] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
414] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
415] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
416] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
417] 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.
418] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
419] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
420] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
421] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
422] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
423] 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
424] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
425] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
426] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
427] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
428] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
429] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
430] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
431] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
432] 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
433] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
434] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
435] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
436] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
437] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
438] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
439] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
440] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
441] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
442] 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.
443] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
444] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
445] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
446] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
447] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
448] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
449] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
450] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
451] 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.
452] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
453] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
454] 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.
455] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
456] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
457] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
458] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
459] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
460] 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
461] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
462] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
463] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
464] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
465] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
466] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
467] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
468] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
469] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
470] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
471] 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.
472] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
473] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
474] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
475] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
476] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
477] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
478] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
479] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
480] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
481] 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.
482] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
483] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
484] 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
485] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
486] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
487] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
488] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
489] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
490] 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
491] 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.
492] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
493] 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).
494] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
495] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
496] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
497] 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.
498] 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
499] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
500] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
501] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
502] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
503] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
504] 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.
505] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
506] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
507] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
508] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
509] 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.
510] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
511] 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.
512] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
513] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
514] 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)
515] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
516] 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
517] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
518] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
519] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
520] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
521] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
522] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
523] 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.
524] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
525] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
526] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
527] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
528] 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.
529] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
530] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
531] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
532] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
533] 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.
534] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
535] 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
536] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
537] 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.
538] 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.
539] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
540] 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.
541] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
542] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
543] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
545] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
546] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
547] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
548] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
549] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
550] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
551] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
552] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
553] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
554] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
555] 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
556] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
557] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
558] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
559] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
560] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
561] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
562] 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).
563] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
564] 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
565] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
566] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
568] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
569] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
570] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
571] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
572] 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.
573] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
574] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
575] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
576] 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
577] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
578] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
579] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
580] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
581] 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)
582] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
583] 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).
584] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
585] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
586] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
587] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
588] 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
589] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
590] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
591] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
592] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
593] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
594] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
595] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
596] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
597] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
598] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
599] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
600] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph