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Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
2] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
3] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
4] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
5] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
6] 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.
7] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
8] 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.
9] 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.
10] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
11] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
12] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
13] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
14] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
15] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
17] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
18] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
19] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
20] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
22] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
23] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
24] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
25] 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.”
26] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
27] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
28] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
29] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that 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 Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
30] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
31] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
32] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
33] 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.
34] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
35] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
36] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
37] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
38] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
39] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
40] 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.
41] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
42] 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
43] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
44] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
45] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
46] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
47] 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)
48] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
49] 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.
50] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
51] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
52] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
53] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
54] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
55] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
56] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
57] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
58] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
59] 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
60] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
61] 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.
62] 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.
63] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
64] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
65] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
66] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
67] 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.
68] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
69] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
70] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
71] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
72] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
73] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
74] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
75] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
76] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
77] 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]
78] 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)
79] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
80] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
81] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
82] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
83] 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
84] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
85] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
86] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
87] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
88] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
89] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
90] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
91] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
92] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
93] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
94] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
95] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
96] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
97] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
98] 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)
99] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
100] 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
101] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
102] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
103] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
104] 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
105] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
106] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
107] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
108] 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.
109] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
110] 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.
111] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
112] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
113] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
114] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
115] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
116] 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
117] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
118] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
119] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
120] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
121] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
122] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
123] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
124] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
125] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
126] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
127] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
128] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
129] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
130] 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
131] 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
132] 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
133] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
134] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
135] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
136] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
137] 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.
138] 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)
139] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
140] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
141] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
142] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
143] 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.
144] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
145] 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
146] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
147] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
148] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
149] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
150] 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
151] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
152] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
153] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
154] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
155] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
156] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
157] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
158] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
159] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
160] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
161] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
162] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
163] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
164] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
165] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
166] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
167] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
168] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
169] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
170] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
171] 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.
172] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
173] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
174] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
175] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
176] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
177] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
178] 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.
179] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
180] 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
181] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
182] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
183] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
184] 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
185] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
186] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
187] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
188] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
189] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
190] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
191] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
192] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
193] 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.
194] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
195] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
196] 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.
197] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
198] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
199] 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.
200] 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.
201] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
202] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
203] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
204] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
205] 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 .
206] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
207] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
208] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
209] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
210] 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
211] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
212] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
213] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
214] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
215] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
216] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
217] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
218] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
219] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
220] 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.
221] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
222] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
223] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
224] 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.
225] 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.
226] 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.
227] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
228] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
229] 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.
230] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
231] 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
232] 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
233] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
234] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
235] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
236] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
237] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
238] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
239] 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.
240] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
241] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
242] 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
243] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
244] 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.
245] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
246] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
247] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
248] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
249] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
250] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
251] 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)
252] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
253] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
254] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
255] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
256] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
257] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
258] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
259] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
260] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
261] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
262] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
263] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
264] 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
265] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
266] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
267] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
268] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
269] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
270] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
271] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
272] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
273] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
274] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
275] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
276] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
277] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
278] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
279] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
280] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
281] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
282] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
283] 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
284] 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.
285] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
286] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
287] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
288] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
289] 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)
290] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
291] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
292] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
293] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
294] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
295] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
296] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
297] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
298] 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)
299] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
300] 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)
301] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
302] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
303] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
304] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
305] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
306] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
307] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
308] 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.
309] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
310] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
311] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
312] 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.
313] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
314] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
315] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
316] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
317] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
318] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
319] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
320] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
321] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
322] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
323] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
324] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
325] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
326] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
327] 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.
328] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
329] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
330] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
331] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
332] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
333] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
334] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
335] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
336] 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)
337] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
338] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
339] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
340] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
341] 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
342] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
343] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
345] 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
346] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
347] 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.
348] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
349] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
350] 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.
351] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
352] 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)
353] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
354] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
355] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
356] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
357] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
358] 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.
359] 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
360] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
361] 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
362] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
363] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
364] 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 .
365] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
366] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
367] 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)
368] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
369] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
370] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
371] 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.
372] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
373] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
374] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
375] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
376] 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
377] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
378] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
379] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
380] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
381] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
382] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
383] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
384] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
385] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
386] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
387] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
388] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
389] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
390] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
391] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
392] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
393] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
394] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
395] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
396] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
397] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
398] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
399] 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.”
400] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
401] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
402] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
403] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
404] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
405] 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.
406] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
407] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
408] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
409] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
410] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
411] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
412] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
413] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
414] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
415] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
416] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
417] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
418] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
419] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
420] 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
421] 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.
422] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
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] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
425] 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.
426] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
427] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
428] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
429] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
430] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
431] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
432] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
433] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
434] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
435] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
436] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
437] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
438] 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.
439] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
440] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
441] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
442] 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.
443] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
444] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
445] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
446] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
447] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
448] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
449] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
450] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
451] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
452] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
453] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
454] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
455] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
456] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
457] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
458] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
459] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
460] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
461] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
462] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
463] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
464] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
465] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
466] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
467] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
468] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
469] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
470] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
471] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
472] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
473] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
474] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
475] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
476] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
477] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
478] 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
479] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
480] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
481] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
482] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
483] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
484] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
485] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
486] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
487] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
488] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
489] 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)
490] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
491] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
492] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
493] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
494] 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
495] 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
496] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
497] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
498] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
499] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
500] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
501] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
502] 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
503] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
504] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
505] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
506] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
507] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
508] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
509] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
510] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
511] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
512] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
513] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
514] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
515] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
516] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
517] 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
518] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
519] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
520] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
521] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
522] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
523] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
524] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
525] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
526] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
527] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
528] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
529] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
530] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
531] 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).
532] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
533] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
534] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
535] 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.
536] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
537] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
538] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
539] 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
540] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
541] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
542] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
543] 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.
544] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
545] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
546] 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.
547] 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
548] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
549] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
550] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
551] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
552] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
553] 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
554] 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
555] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
556] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
557] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
558] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
559] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
560] 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
561] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
562] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
563] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
564] 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
565] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
566] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
567] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
568] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
569] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
570] 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
571] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
572] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
573] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
574] 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)
575] 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
576] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
577] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
578] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
579] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
580] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
581] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
582] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
583] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
584] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
585] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
586] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
587] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
588] 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
589] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
590] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
591] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
592] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
593] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
594] 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
595] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
596] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
597] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
598] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
599] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
600] 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



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