Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
3] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
4] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
5] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
6] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
7] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
8] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
9] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
10] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
11] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
12] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
13] 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)
14] 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
15] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
16] 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.
17] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
18] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
19] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
20] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
21] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
22] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
23] 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.
24] Commonsense is not so common.
25] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
26] 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
27] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
28] 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.
29] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
30] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
31] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
32] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
33] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
34] 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.
35] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
36] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
37] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
38] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
39] 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)
40] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
41] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
42] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
43] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
44] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
45] 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
46] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
47] 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
48] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
49] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
50] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
51] 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
52] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
53] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
54] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
55] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
56] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
57] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
58] 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
59] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
60] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
61] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
62] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
63] 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.
64] 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)
65] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
66] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
67] 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
68] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
69] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
70] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
71] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
72] 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
73] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
74] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
75] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
76] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
77] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
78] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
79] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
80] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
81] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
82] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
83] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
84] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
85] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
86] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
87] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
88] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
89] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
90] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
91] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
92] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
93] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
94] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
95] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
96] 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.
97] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
98] 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
99] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
100] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
101] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
102] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
103] 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)
104] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
105] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
106] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
107] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
108] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
109] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
110] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
111] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
112] 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
113] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
114] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
115] 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.
116] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
117] 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
118] 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)
119] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
120] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
121] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
122] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
123] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
124] 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
125] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
126] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
127] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
128] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
129] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
130] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
131] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
132] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
133] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
134] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
135] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
136] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
137] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
138] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
139] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
140] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
141] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
142] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
143] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
144] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
145] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
146] 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.
147] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
148] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
149] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
150] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
151] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
153] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
154] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
155] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
156] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
157] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
158] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
159] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
160] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
161] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
162] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
163] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
164] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
165] 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.
166] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
167] 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.
168] 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.
169] 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.
170] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
171] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
172] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
173] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
174] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
175] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
176] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
177] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
178] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
179] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
180] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
181] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
182] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
183] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
184] 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.
185] 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.
186] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
187] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
188] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
189] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
190] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
191] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
192] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
193] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
194] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
195] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
196] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
197] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
198] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
199] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
200] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
201] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
202] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
203] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
204] 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.
205] 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.
206] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
207] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
209] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
210] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
211] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
212] 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.
213] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
214] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
215] 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.
216] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
217] 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)
218] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
219] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
220] 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
221] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
222] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
223] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
224] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
225] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
226] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
227] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
228] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
229] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
230] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
231] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
232] 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).
233] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
234] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
235] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
236] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
237] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
238] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
239] 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)
240] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
241] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
242] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
243] 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.
244] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
245] 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.
246] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
247] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
248] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
249] 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.
250] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
251] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
252] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
253] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
254] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
255] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
256] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
257] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
258] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
259] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
260] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
261] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
262] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
263] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
264] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
265] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
266] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
267] 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
268] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
269] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
270] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
271] 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
272] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
273] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
274] 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.”
275] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
276] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
277] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
278] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
279] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
280] 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).
281] 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.
282] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
283] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
284] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
285] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
286] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
287] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
288] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
289] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
290] 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)
291] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
292] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
293] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
294] 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
295] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
296] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
297] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
298] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
299] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
300] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
301] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
302] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
303] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
304] 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
305] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
306] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
307] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
308] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
309] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
310] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
311] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
312] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
313] 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.
314] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
315] 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.
316] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
317] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
318] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
319] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
320] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
321] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
322] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
323] 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.
324] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
325] 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.
326] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
327] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
328] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
329] 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]
330] 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
331] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
332] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
333] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
334] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
335] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
336] 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
337] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
338] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
339] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
340] 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.
341] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
342] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
343] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
344] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
345] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
346] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
347] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
348] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
349] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
350] 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)
351] 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.
352] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
353] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
354] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
355] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
356] 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.
357] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
358] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
359] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
360] 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).
361] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
362] 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
363] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
364] 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.
365] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
366] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
367] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
368] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
369] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
370] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
371] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
372] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
373] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
374] 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
375] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
376] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
377] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
378] 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
379] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
380] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
381] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
382] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
383] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
384] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
385] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
386] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
387] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
388] 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.
389] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
390] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
391] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
392] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
393] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
394] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
395] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
396] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
397] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
398] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
399] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
400] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
401] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
402] 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.
403] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
404] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
405] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
406] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
407] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
408] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
409] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
410] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
411] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
412] 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)
413] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
414] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
415] 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)
416] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
417] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
418] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
419] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
420] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
421] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
422] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
423] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
424] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
425] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
426] 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.
427] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
428] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
429] 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 .
430] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
431] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
432] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
433] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
434] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
435] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
436] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
437] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
438] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
439] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
440] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
441] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
442] 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
443] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
444] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
445] 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.
446] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
447] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
448] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
449] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
450] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
451] 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.
452] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
453] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
454] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
455] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
456] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
457] 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.
458] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
459] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
460] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
461] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
462] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
463] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
464] 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.
465] 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)
466] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
467] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
468] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
469] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
470] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
471] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
472] 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
473] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
474] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
475] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
476] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
477] 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)
478] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
479] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
480] 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 .
481] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
482] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
483] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
484] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
485] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
486] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
487] 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
488] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
489] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
490] 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.
491] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
492] 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.
493] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
494] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
495] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
496] 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.
497] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
498] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
499] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
500] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
501] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
502] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
503] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
504] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
505] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
506] 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.
507] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
508] 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.
509] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
510] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
511] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
512] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
513] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
514] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
515] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
516] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
517] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
518] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
519] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
520] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
521] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
522] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
523] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
524] 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.
525] 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
526] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
527] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
528] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
529] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
530] 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.
531] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
533] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
534] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
535] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
536] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
537] 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
538] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
539] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
540] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
541] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
542] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
543] 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
544] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
545] 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
546] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
547] 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)
548] 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.
549] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
550] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
551] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
552] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
553] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
554] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
555] 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.
556] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
557] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
558] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
559] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
560] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
561] 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
562] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
563] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
564] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
565] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
566] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
567] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
568] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
569] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
570] 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.
571] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
572] 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
573] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
574] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
575] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
576] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
577] Commonsense is not so common.
578] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
579] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
580] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
581] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
582] 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.
583] 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.
584] 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.
585] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
586] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
587] 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.
588] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
589] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
590] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
591] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
592] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
593] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
594] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
595] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
596] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
597] 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)
598] 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
599] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
600] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.