Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
3] 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
4] 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
5] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
6] 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)
7] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
8] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
9] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
10] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
11] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
12] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
13] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
14] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
15] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
16] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
17] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
18] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
19] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
20] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
21] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
22] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
23] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
24] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
25] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
26] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
27] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
28] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
29] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
30] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
31] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
32] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
33] 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
34] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
35] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
36] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
37] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
38] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
39] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
40] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
41] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
42] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
43] 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.
44] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
45] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
46] 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)
47] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
48] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
49] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
50] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
51] 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.
52] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
53] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
54] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
55] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
56] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
57] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
58] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
59] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
60] 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
61] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
62] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
63] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
64] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
65] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
66] 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
67] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
68] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
69] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
70] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
71] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
72] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
73] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
74] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
75] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
76] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
77] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
78] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
79] 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
80] 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.
81] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
82] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
83] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
84] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
85] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
86] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
87] 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.
88] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
89] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
90] 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
91] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
92] 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.
93] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
94] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
95] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
96] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
97] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
98] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
99] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
100] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
101] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
102] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
103] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
104] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
105] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
106] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
107] 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.
108] 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.
109] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
110] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
111] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
112] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
113] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
114] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
115] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
116] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
117] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
118] 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
119] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
120] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
121] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
122] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
123] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
124] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
125] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
126] 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.
127] 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
128] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
129] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
130] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
131] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
132] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
133] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
134] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
135] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
136] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
137] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
138] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
139] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
140] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
141] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
142] 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)
143] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
145] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
146] 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)
147] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
148] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
149] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
150] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
151] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
152] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
153] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
154] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
155] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
156] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
157] 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).
158] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
159] 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
160] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
161] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
162] 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.
163] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
164] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
165] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
166] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
167] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
168] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
169] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
170] 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.
171] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
172] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
173] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
174] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
175] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
176] 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.
177] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
178] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
179] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
180] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
181] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
182] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
183] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
184] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
185] 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
186] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
187] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
188] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
189] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
190] 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.
191] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
192] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
193] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
194] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
195] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
196] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
197] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
198] 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.
199] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
200] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
201] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
202] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
203] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
204] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
205] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
206] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
207] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
208] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
209] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
210] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
211] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
212] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
213] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
214] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
215] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
216] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
217] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
218] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
219] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
220] 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.
221] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
222] 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.
223] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
224] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
225] 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.
226] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
227] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
228] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
229] 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.
230] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
231] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
232] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
233] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
234] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
235] 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.
236] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
237] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
238] 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.
239] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
240] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
241] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
242] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
243] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
244] 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)
245] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
246] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
247] 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.
248] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
249] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
250] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
251] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
252] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
253] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
254] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
255] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
256] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
257] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
258] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
259] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
260] 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.
261] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
262] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
263] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
264] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
265] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
266] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
267] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
268] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
269] 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.
270] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
271] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
272] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
273] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
274] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
275] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
276] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
277] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
278] 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
279] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
280] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
281] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
282] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
283] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
284] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
285] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
286] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
287] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
288] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
289] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
290] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
291] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
292] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
293] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
294] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
295] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
296] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
297] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
298] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
299] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
300] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
301] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
302] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
303] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
304] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
305] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
306] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
307] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
308] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
309] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
310] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
311] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
312] 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.”
313] 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
314] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
315] 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.
316] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
317] 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)
318] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
319] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
320] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
321] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
322] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
323] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
324] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
325] 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
326] 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).
327] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
328] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
329] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
330] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
331] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
332] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
333] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
334] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
335] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
336] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
337] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
338] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
339] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
340] 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.
341] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
342] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
343] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
344] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
345] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
346] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
347] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
348] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
349] 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)
350] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
351] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
352] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
353] 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.
354] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
355] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
356] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
357] 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.
358] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
359] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
360] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
361] 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.
362] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
363] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
364] 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.
365] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
366] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
367] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
368] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
369] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
370] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
371] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
372] 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
373] 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.
374] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
375] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
376] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
377] 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
378] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
379] 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
380] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
381] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
382] 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
383] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
384] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
385] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
386] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
387] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
388] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
389] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
390] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
391] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
392] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
393] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
394] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
395] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
396] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
397] 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
398] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
399] 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.
400] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
401] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
402] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
403] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
404] 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.
405] 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
406] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
407] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
408] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
409] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
410] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
411] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
412] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
413] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
414] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
415] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
416] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
417] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
418] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
419] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
420] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
421] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
422] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
423] 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.
424] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
425] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
426] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
427] 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.
428] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
429] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
430] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
431] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
432] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
433] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
434] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
435] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
436] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
437] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
438] 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
439] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
440] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
441] 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
442] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
443] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
444] 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
445] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
446] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
447] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
448] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
449] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
450] 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]
451] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
452] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
453] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
454] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
455] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
456] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
457] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
458] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
459] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
460] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
461] 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
462] 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.
463] 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
464] 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.
465] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
466] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
467] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
468] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
469] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
470] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
471] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
472] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
473] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
474] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
475] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
476] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
477] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
478] 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.
479] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
480] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
481] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
482] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
483] 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.
484] 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.
485] 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
486] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
487] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
488] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
489] 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)
490] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
491] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
492] 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.
493] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
494] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
495] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
496] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
497] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
498] 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.
499] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
500] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
501] 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.
502] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
503] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
504] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
505] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
506] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
507] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
508] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
509] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
510] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
511] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
512] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
513] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
514] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
515] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
516] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
517] 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.
518] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
519] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
520] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
521] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
522] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
523] 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.
524] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
525] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
526] 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)
527] 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.
528] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
529] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
530] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
531] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
532] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
533] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
534] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
535] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
536] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
537] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
538] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
539] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
540] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
541] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
542] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
543] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
544] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
545] 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)
546] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
547] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
548] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
549] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
550] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
551] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
552] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
553] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
554] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
555] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
556] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
557] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
558] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
559] 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
560] 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
561] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
562] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
563] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
564] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
565] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
566] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
567] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
568] 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
569] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
570] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
571] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
572] 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
573] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
574] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
575] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
576] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
577] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
578] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
579] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
580] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
581] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
582] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
583] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
584] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
585] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
586] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
587] 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.
588] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
589] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
590] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
591] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
592] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
593] 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.
594] 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)
595] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
596] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
597] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
598] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
599] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
600] 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.