Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
3] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
4] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
5] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
6] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
7] 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.
8] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
9] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
10] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
11] 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.
12] 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)
13] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
14] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
15] 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.
16] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
17] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
18] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
19] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
20] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
21] 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
22] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
23] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
24] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
25] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
26] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
27] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
28] 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
29] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
30] 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.
31] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
32] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
33] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
34] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
35] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
36] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
37] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
38] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
39] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
40] 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
41] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
42] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
43] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
44] 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
45] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
46] 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)
47] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
48] 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.
49] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
50] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
51] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
52] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
53] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
54] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
55] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
56] 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.
57] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
58] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
59] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
60] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
61] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
62] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
63] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
64] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
65] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
66] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
67] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
68] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
69] 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
70] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
71] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
72] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
73] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
74] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
75] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
76] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
77] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
78] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
79] 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)
80] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
81] 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.
82] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
83] 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
84] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
85] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
86] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
87] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
88] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
89] 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.
90] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
91] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
92] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
93] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
94] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
95] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
96] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
97] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
98] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
99] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
100] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
101] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
102] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
103] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
104] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
105] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
106] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
107] 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
108] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
109] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
110] 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
111] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
112] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
113] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
114] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
115] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
116] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
117] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
118] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
119] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
120] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
121] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
122] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
123] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
124] 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)
125] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
126] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
127] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
128] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
129] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
130] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
131] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
132] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
133] 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
134] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
135] 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
136] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
137] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
138] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
139] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
140] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
141] 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.
142] 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
143] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
144] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
145] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
146] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
147] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
148] 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.
149] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
150] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
151] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
152] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
153] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
154] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
155] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
156] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
157] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
158] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
159] 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)
160] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
161] 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.
162] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
163] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
164] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
165] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
166] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
167] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
168] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
169] 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)
170] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
171] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
172] 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).
173] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
174] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
175] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
176] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
177] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
178] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
179] 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
180] 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
181] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
182] 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.
183] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
184] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
185] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
186] 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
187] 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.
188] 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.
189] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
190] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
191] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
192] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
193] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
194] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
195] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
196] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
197] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
198] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
199] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
200] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
201] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
202] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
203] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
204] 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.
205] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
206] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
207] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
208] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
209] Commonsense is not so common.
210] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
211] 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.
212] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
213] 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
214] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
215] 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.
216] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
217] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
218] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
219] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
220] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
221] 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
222] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
223] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
224] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
225] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
226] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
227] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
228] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
229] 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
230] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
231] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
232] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
233] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
234] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
235] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
236] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
237] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
238] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
239] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
240] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
241] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
242] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
243] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
244] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
245] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
246] 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.
247] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
248] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
249] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
250] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
251] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
252] 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.
253] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
254] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
255] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
256] 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.
257] 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
258] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
259] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
260] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
261] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
262] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
263] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
264] 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
265] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
266] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
267] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
268] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
269] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
270] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
271] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
272] 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.
273] 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
274] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
275] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
276] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
277] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
278] 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)
279] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
280] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
281] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
282] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
283] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
284] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
285] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
286] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
287] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
288] 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.
289] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
290] 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
291] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
292] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
293] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
294] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
295] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
296] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
297] 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.
298] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
299] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
300] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
301] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
302] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
303] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
304] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
305] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
306] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
307] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
308] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
309] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
310] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
311] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
312] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
313] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
314] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
315] 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.
316] 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
317] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
318] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
319] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
320] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
321] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
322] 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
323] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
324] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
325] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
326] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
327] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
328] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
329] 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.
330] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
331] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
332] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
333] 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 .
334] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
335] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
336] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
337] 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
338] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
339] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
340] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
341] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
342] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
343] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
344] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
345] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
346] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
347] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
348] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
349] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
350] 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.
351] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
352] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
353] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
354] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
355] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
356] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
357] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
358] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
359] 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.
360] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
361] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
362] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
363] 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
364] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
365] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
366] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
367] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
368] Commonsense is not so common.
369] 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.
370] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
371] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
372] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
373] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
374] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
375] 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
376] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
377] 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)
378] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
379] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
380] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
381] 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.
382] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
383] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
384] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
385] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
386] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
387] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
388] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
389] 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
390] 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.
391] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
392] 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.
393] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
394] 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)
395] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
396] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
397] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
398] 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.
399] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
400] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
401] 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
402] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
403] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
404] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
405] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
406] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
407] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
408] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
409] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
410] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
411] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
412] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
413] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
414] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
415] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
416] 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
417] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
418] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
419] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
420] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
421] 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.
422] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
423] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
424] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
425] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
426] 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.
427] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
428] 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
429] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
430] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
431] 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]
432] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
433] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
434] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
435] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
436] 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
437] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
438] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
439] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
440] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
441] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
442] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
443] 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.
444] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
445] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
446] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
447] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
448] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
449] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
450] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
451] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
452] 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
453] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
454] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
455] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
456] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
457] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
458] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
459] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
460] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
461] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
462] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
463] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
464] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
465] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
466] 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.
467] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
468] 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.
469] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
470] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
471] 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
472] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
473] 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.
474] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
475] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
476] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
477] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
478] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
479] 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)
480] 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)
481] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
482] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
483] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
484] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
485] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
486] 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
487] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
488] 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.
489] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
490] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
491] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
492] 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
493] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
494] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
495] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
496] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
497] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
498] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
499] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
500] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
501] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
502] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
503] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
504] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
505] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
506] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
507] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
508] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
509] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
510] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
511] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
512] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
513] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
514] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
515] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
516] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
517] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
518] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
519] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
520] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
521] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
522] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
523] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
524] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
525] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
526] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
527] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
528] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
529] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
530] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
531] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
532] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
533] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
534] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
535] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
536] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
537] 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)
538] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
539] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
540] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
541] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
542] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
543] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
544] 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).
545] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
546] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
547] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
548] 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).
549] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
550] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
551] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
552] 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.
553] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
554] 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.
555] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
556] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
557] 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
558] 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]
559] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
560] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
561] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
562] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
563] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
564] 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)
565] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
566] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
568] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
569] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
570] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
571] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
572] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
573] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
574] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
575] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
576] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
577] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
578] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
579] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
580] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
581] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
582] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
583] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
584] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
585] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
586] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
587] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
588] 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)
589] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
590] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
591] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
592] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
593] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
594] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
595] 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
596] 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
597] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
598] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
599] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
600] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.