Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
3] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
4] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
5] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
7] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
8] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
9] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
10] 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)
11] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
12] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
13] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
14] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
15] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
16] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
17] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
18] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
19] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
20] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
21] 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
22] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
23] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
24] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
25] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
26] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
27] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
28] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
29] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
30] 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).
31] 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.
32] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
33] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
34] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
35] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
36] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
37] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
38] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
39] 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)
40] 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).
41] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
42] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
43] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
44] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
45] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
46] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
47] 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.
48] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
49] 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.
50] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
51] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
52] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
53] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
54] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
55] 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
56] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
57] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
58] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
59] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
60] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
61] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
62] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
63] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
64] 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
65] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
66] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
67] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
68] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
69] 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.
70] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
71] 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.
72] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
73] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
74] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
75] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
76] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
77] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
78] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
79] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
80] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
81] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
82] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
83] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
84] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
85] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
86] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
87] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
88] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
89] 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.
90] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
91] 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.
92] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
93] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
94] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
95] 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
96] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
97] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
98] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
99] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
100] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
101] 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.
102] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
103] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
104] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
105] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
106] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
107] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
108] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
109] 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
110] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
111] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
112] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
113] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
114] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
115] 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.
116] 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)
117] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
118] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
119] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
120] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
121] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
122] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
123] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
124] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
125] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
126] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
127] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
128] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
129] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
130] 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.
131] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
132] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
133] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
134] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
135] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
136] 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
137] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
138] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
139] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
140] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
141] 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.
142] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
143] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
144] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
145] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
146] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
147] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
148] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
149] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
150] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
151] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
153] 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.
154] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
155] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
156] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
157] 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.
158] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
159] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
160] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
161] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
162] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
163] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
164] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
165] 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)
166] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
167] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
168] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
169] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
170] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
171] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
172] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
173] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
174] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
175] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
176] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
177] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
178] 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.
179] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
180] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
181] 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)
182] 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
183] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
184] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
185] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
186] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
187] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
188] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
189] 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.
190] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
191] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
192] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
193] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
194] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
195] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
196] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
197] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
198] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
199] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
200] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
201] 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 .
202] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
203] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
204] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
205] 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.
206] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
207] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
208] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
209] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
210] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
211] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
212] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
213] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
214] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
215] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
216] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
217] 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.
218] 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)
219] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
220] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
221] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
222] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
223] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
224] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
225] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
226] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
227] 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
228] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
229] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
230] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
231] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
232] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
233] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
234] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
235] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
236] 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.
237] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
238] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
239] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
240] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
241] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
242] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
243] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
244] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
245] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
246] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
247] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
249] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
250] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
251] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
252] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
253] 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)
254] 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.
255] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
256] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
257] 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
258] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
259] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
260] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
261] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
262] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
263] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
264] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
265] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
266] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
267] 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)
268] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
269] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
270] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
271] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
272] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
273] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
274] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
275] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
276] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
277] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
278] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
279] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
280] 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.
281] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
282] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
283] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
284] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
285] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
286] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
287] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
288] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
289] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
290] 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.
291] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
292] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
293] 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.
294] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
295] 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.
296] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
297] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
298] 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.
299] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
300] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
301] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
302] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
303] 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)
304] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
305] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
306] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
307] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
308] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
309] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
310] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
311] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
312] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
313] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
314] 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
315] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
316] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
317] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
318] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
319] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
320] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
321] 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.
322] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
323] 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
324] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
325] 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.
326] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
327] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
328] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
329] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
330] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
331] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
332] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
333] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
334] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
335] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
336] 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)
337] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
338] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
339] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
340] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
341] 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)
342] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
343] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
344] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
345] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
346] 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
347] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
348] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
349] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
350] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
351] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
352] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
353] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
354] 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
355] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
356] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
357] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
358] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
359] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
360] 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.
361] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
362] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
363] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
364] 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.
365] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
366] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
367] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
368] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
369] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
370] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
371] 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
372] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
373] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
374] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
375] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
376] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
377] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
378] 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
379] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
380] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
381] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
382] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
383] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
384] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
385] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
386] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
387] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
388] 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
389] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
390] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
391] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
392] 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)
393] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
394] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
395] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
396] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
397] 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.
398] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
399] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
400] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
401] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
402] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
403] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
404] 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.
405] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
406] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
407] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
408] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
409] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
410] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
411] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
412] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
413] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
414] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
415] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
416] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
417] 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
418] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
419] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
420] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
421] 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)
422] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
423] Commonsense is not so common.
424] 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
425] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
426] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
427] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
428] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
429] 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
430] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
431] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
432] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
433] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
434] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
435] 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.
436] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
437] 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
438] 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
439] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
440] 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.
441] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
442] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
443] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
444] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
445] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
446] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
447] 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.
448] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
449] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
450] 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)
451] 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
452] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
453] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
454] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
456] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
457] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
458] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
459] 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.
460] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
461] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
462] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
463] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
464] 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
465] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
466] 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.
467] 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
468] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
469] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
470] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
471] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
472] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
473] 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]
474] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
475] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
476] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
477] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
478] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
479] 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
480] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
481] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
482] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
483] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
484] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
485] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
486] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
487] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
488] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
489] 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.
490] 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
491] 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.
492] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
493] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
494] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
495] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
496] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
497] 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.
498] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
499] 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
500] 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.
501] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
502] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
503] 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
504] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
505] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
506] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
507] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
508] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
509] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
510] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
511] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
512] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
513] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
514] 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.
515] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
516] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
517] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
518] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
519] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
520] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
521] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
522] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
523] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
524] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
525] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
526] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
527] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
528] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
529] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
530] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
531] 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
532] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
533] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
534] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
535] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
536] 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.
537] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
538] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
539] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
540] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
541] 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.
542] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
543] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] 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.”
545] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
546] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
547] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
548] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
549] 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
550] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
551] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
552] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
553] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
554] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
555] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
556] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
557] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
558] 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.
559] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
560] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
561] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
562] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
563] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
564] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
565] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
566] 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.
567] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
568] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
569] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
570] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
571] 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.
572] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
573] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
574] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
575] 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)
576] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
577] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
578] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
579] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
580] 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
581] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
582] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
583] 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.
584] 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
585] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
586] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
587] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
588] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
589] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
590] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
591] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
592] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
593] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
594] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
595] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
596] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
597] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
598] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
599] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
600] 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.