Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
2] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
3] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
4] 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
5] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
6] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
7] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
8] 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
9] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
10] 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.
11] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
12] 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
13] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
14] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
15] 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)
16] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
17] 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.
18] 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
19] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
20] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
21] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
22] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
23] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
24] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
25] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
26] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
27] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
28] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
29] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
30] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
31] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
32] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
33] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
34] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
35] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
36] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
37] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
38] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
39] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
40] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
41] 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
42] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
43] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
44] 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.
45] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
46] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
47] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
49] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
50] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
51] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
52] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
53] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
54] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
55] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
56] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
57] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
58] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
59] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
60] 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.
61] 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)
62] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
63] 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.
64] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
65] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
66] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
67] 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.
68] 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)
69] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
70] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
71] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
72] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
73] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
74] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
75] 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
76] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
77] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
78] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
79] 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)
80] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
81] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
82] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
83] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
84] 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.
85] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
86] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
87] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
88] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
89] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
90] 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.
91] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
92] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
93] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
94] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
95] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
96] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
97] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
98] Commonsense is not so common.
99] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
100] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
101] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
102] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
103] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
104] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
105] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
106] 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).
107] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
108] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
109] 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.
110] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
111] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
112] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
113] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
114] 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
115] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
116] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
117] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
118] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
119] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
120] 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.
121] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
122] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
123] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
124] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
125] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
126] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
127] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
128] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
129] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
130] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
131] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
132] 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
133] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
134] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
135] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
136] 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)
137] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
138] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
139] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
140] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
141] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
142] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
143] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
144] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
145] 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).
146] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
147] 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
148] 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
149] 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.
150] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
151] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
152] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
153] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
154] 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
155] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
156] 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.”
157] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
158] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
159] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
160] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
161] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
162] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
163] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
164] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
165] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
166] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
167] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
168] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
169] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
170] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
171] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
172] 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
173] 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
174] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
175] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
176] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
177] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
178] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
179] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
180] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
181] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
182] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
183] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
184] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
185] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
186] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
187] 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)
188] 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
189] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
190] 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
191] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
192] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
193] 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
194] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
195] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
196] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
197] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
198] 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.
199] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
200] 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)
201] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
202] 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
203] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
205] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
206] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
207] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
208] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
209] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
210] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
211] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
212] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
213] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
214] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
215] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
216] 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
217] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
218] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
219] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
220] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
221] 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
222] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
223] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
224] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
225] 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)
226] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
227] 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
228] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
229] 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.
230] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
231] 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.
232] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
233] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
234] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
235] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
236] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
237] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
238] 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.
239] 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)
240] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
241] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
242] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
243] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
244] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
245] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
246] 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.
247] 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.
248] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
249] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
250] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
251] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
252] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
253] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
254] 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
255] 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).
256] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
257] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
258] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
259] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
260] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
261] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
262] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
263] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
264] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
265] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
266] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
267] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
268] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
269] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
270] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
271] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
272] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
273] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
274] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
275] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
276] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
277] 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.
278] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
279] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
280] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
281] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
282] 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)
283] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
284] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
285] 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)
286] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
287] 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
288] 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
289] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
290] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
291] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
292] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
293] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
294] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
295] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
296] 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
297] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
298] 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 .
299] 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.”
300] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
301] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
302] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
303] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
304] 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
305] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
306] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
307] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
308] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
309] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
310] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
311] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
312] 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.
313] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
314] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
315] 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.
316] 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.
317] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
318] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
319] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
320] 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.
321] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
322] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
324] 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.
325] 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
326] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
327] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
328] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
329] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
330] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
331] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
332] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
333] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
334] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
335] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
336] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
337] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
338] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
339] 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.
340] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
341] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
342] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
343] 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
344] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
345] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
346] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
347] 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
348] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
349] 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)
350] 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
351] 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
352] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
353] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
354] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
355] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
356] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
357] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
358] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
359] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
360] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
361] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
362] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
363] 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.
364] 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)
365] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
366] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
367] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
368] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
369] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
370] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
371] 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.
372] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
373] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
374] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
375] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
376] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
377] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
378] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
379] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
380] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
381] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
382] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
383] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
384] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
385] 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.
386] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
387] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
388] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
389] 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.
390] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
391] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
392] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
393] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
394] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
395] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
396] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
397] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
398] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
399] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
400] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
401] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
402] 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
403] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
404] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
405] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
406] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
407] 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.
408] 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.
409] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
410] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
411] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
412] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
413] 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.
414] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
415] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
416] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
417] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
418] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
419] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
420] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
421] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
422] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
423] 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.
424] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
425] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
426] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
427] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
428] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
429] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
430] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
431] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
432] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
433] 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.
434] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
436] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
437] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
438] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
439] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
440] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
441] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
442] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
443] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
444] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
445] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
446] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
447] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
448] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
449] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
450] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
451] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
452] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
453] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
454] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
455] 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.
456] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
457] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
458] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
459] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
460] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
461] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
462] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
463] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
464] 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.
465] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
466] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
467] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
468] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
469] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
470] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
471] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
472] 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
473] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
474] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
475] 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.
476] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
477] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
478] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
479] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
480] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
481] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
482] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
483] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
484] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
485] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
486] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
487] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
488] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
489] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
490] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
491] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
492] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
493] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
494] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
495] 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.
496] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
497] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
498] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
499] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
500] 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
501] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
502] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
503] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
504] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
505] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
506] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
507] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
508] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
509] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
510] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
511] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
512] 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.
513] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
514] 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)
515] 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.
516] 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
517] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
518] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
519] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
520] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
521] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
522] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
523] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
524] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
525] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
526] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
527] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
528] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
529] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
530] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
531] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
532] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
533] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
534] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
535] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
536] 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
537] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
538] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
539] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
540] 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
541] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
542] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
543] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
544] 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.
545] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
546] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
547] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
548] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
549] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
550] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
551] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
552] 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.
553] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
554] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
555] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
556] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
557] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
558] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
559] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
560] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
561] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
562] 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.
563] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
564] 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.
565] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
566] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
567] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
568] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
569] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
570] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
571] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
572] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
573] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
574] 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.
575] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
576] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
577] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
578] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
579] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
580] 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
581] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
582] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
583] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
584] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
585] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
586] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
587] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
588] 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
589] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
590] 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
591] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
592] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
593] 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.
594] 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
595] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
596] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
597] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
598] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
599] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
600] 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