Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
3] 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
4] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
5] 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)
6] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
7] 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.
8] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
9] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
10] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
11] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
12] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
13] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
15] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
16] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
17] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
18] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
19] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
20] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
21] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
22] 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
23] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
24] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
25] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
26] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
27] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
28] 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
29] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
30] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
31] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
32] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
33] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
34] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
35] 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.
36] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
37] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
38] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
39] 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)
40] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
41] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
42] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
43] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
44] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
45] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
46] 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
47] 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
48] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
49] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
50] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
51] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
52] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
53] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
54] 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.”
55] 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.
56] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
57] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
58] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
59] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
60] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
61] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
62] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
63] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
64] 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.
65] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
66] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
67] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
68] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
69] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
70] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
71] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
72] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
73] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
74] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
75] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
76] 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.
77] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
78] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
79] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
80] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
81] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
82] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
83] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
84] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
85] 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
86] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
87] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
88] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
89] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
90] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
91] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
92] 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)
93] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
94] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
95] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
96] 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.
97] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
98] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
99] 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
100] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
101] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
102] 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.
103] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
104] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
105] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
106] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
107] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
108] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
109] 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
110] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
111] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
112] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
113] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
114] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
115] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
116] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
117] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
118] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
119] 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.
120] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
121] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
122] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
123] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
124] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
125] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
126] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
127] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
128] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
129] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
130] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
131] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
132] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
133] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
134] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
135] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
136] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
137] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
138] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
139] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
140] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
141] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
142] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
143] 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.
144] 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.
145] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
146] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
147] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
148] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
149] 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
150] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
151] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
152] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
153] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
154] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
155] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
156] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
157] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
158] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
159] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
160] 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.
161] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
162] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
163] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
164] 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
165] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
166] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
167] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
168] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
169] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
170] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
171] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
172] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
173] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
174] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
175] 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.
176] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
177] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
178] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
179] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
180] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
181] 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.
182] 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
183] 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
184] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
185] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
186] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
187] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
188] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
189] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
190] 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
191] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
192] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
193] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
194] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
195] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
196] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
197] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
198] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
199] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
200] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
201] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
202] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
203] 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.
204] 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.
205] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
206] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
207] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
208] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
209] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
210] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
211] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
212] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
213] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
214] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
215] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
216] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
217] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
218] 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
219] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
220] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
221] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
222] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
223] 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).
224] 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
225] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
226] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
227] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
228] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
229] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
230] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
231] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
232] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
233] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
234] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
235] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
236] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
237] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
238] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
239] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
240] Commonsense is not so common.
241] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
242] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
243] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
244] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
245] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
246] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
247] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
248] 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
249] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
250] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
251] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
252] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
253] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
254] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
255] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
256] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
257] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
258] 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)
259] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
260] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
261] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
262] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
263] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
264] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
265] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
266] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
267] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
268] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
269] 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.
270] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
271] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
272] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
273] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
274] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
275] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
276] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
277] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
278] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
279] 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.
280] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
281] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
282] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
283] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
284] 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.
285] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
286] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
287] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
288] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
289] 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.
290] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
291] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
292] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
293] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
294] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
295] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
296] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
297] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
298] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
299] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
300] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
301] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
302] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
303] 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.
304] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
305] 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.
306] 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)
307] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
308] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
309] 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.
310] 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)
311] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
312] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
313] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
314] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
315] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
316] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
317] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
318] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
319] 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 .
320] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
321] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
322] 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.
323] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
324] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
325] 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.
326] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
327] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
328] 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
329] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
330] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
331] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
332] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
333] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
334] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
335] 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.
336] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
337] 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
338] 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
339] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
340] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
341] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
342] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
343] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
344] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
345] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
346] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
347] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
348] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
349] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
350] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
351] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
352] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
353] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
354] 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]
355] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
356] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
357] 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
358] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
359] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
360] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
361] 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.
362] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
363] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
364] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
365] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
366] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
367] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
368] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
369] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
370] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
371] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
372] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
373] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
374] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
375] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
376] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
377] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
378] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
379] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
380] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
381] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
382] 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.
383] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
384] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
385] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
386] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
387] 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
388] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
389] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
390] 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)
391] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
392] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
393] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
394] 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.
395] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
396] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
397] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
398] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
399] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
400] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
401] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
402] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
403] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
404] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
405] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
406] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
407] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
408] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
409] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
410] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
411] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
412] 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
413] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
414] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
415] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
416] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
417] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
418] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
419] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
420] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
421] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
422] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
423] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
424] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
425] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
426] 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
427] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
428] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
429] 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.
430] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
431] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
432] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
433] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
434] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
435] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
436] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
437] 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.
438] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
439] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
440] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
441] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
442] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
443] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
444] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
445] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
446] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
447] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
448] 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.
449] 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.
450] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
451] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
452] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
453] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
454] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
455] 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
456] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
457] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
458] 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)
459] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
460] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
461] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
462] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
463] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
464] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
465] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
466] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
467] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
468] 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
469] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
470] 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
471] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
472] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
473] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
474] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
475] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
476] 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.
477] 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
478] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
479] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
480] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
481] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
482] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
483] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
484] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
485] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
486] 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.
487] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
488] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
489] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
490] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
491] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
492] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
493] 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.
494] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
495] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
496] 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
497] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
498] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
499] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
500] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
501] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
502] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
503] 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
504] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
505] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
506] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
507] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
508] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
509] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
510] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
511] 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
512] 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.
513] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
514] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
515] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
516] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
517] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
518] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
519] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
520] 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
521] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
522] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
523] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
524] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
525] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
526] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
527] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
528] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
529] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
530] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
531] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
532] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
533] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
534] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
535] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
536] Commonsense is not so common.
537] 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)
538] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
539] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
540] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
541] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
542] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
543] 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
544] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
545] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
546] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
547] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
548] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
549] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
550] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
551] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
552] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
553] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
554] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
555] 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
556] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
557] 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
558] 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)
559] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
560] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
561] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
562] 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)
563] 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
564] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
565] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
566] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
567] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
568] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
569] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
570] 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.
571] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
572] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
573] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
574] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
575] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
576] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
577] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
578] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
579] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
580] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
581] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
582] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
583] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
584] 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.
585] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
586] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
587] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
588] 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.
589] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
590] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
591] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
592] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
593] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
594] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
595] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
596] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
597] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
598] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
599] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
600] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.