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Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
3] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
4] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
5] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
6] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
7] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
8] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
9] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
10] 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
11] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
12] 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
13] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
14] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
15] 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)
16] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
17] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
18] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
19] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
20] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
21] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
22] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
23] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
24] 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)
25] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
26] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
27] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
28] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
29] 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.
30] 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.
31] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
32] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
33] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
34] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
35] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
36] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
37] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
38] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
39] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
40] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
41] 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.”
42] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
43] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
44] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
45] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
46] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
47] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
48] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
49] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
50] 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.
51] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
52] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
53] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
54] 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
55] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
56] 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
57] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
58] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
59] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
60] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
61] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
62] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
63] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
64] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
65] 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
66] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
67] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
68] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
69] 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
70] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
71] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
72] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
73] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
74] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
75] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
76] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
77] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
78] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
79] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
80] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
81] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
82] 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.
83] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
84] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
85] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
86] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
87] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
88] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
89] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
90] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
91] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
92] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
93] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
94] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
95] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
96] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
97] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
98] 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.
99] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
100] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
101] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
102] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
103] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
104] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
105] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
106] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
107] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
108] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
109] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
110] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
111] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
112] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
113] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
114] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
115] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
116] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
117] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
118] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
119] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
120] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
121] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
122] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
123] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
124] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
125] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
126] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
127] 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
128] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
129] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
130] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
131] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
132] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] 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
134] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
135] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
136] 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
137] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
138] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
139] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
140] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
141] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
142] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
143] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
144] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
145] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
146] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
147] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
148] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
149] 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)
150] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
151] 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
152] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
153] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
154] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
155] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
156] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
157] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
158] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
159] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
160] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
161] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
162] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
163] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
164] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
165] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
166] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
167] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
168] 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
169] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
170] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
171] 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.
172] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
173] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
174] 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.
175] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
176] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
177] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
178] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
179] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
180] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
181] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
182] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
183] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
184] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
185] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
186] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
187] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
188] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
189] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
190] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
191] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
192] 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.
193] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
194] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
195] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
196] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
197] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
198] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
199] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
200] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
201] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
202] 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.
203] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
204] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
205] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
206] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
207] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
208] 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.
209] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
210] 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.
211] 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
212] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
213] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
214] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
215] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
216] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
217] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
218] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
219] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
220] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
221] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
222] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
223] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
224] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
225] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
226] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
227] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
228] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
229] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
230] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
231] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
232] 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)
233] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
234] 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
235] 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
236] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
237] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
238] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
239] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
240] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
241] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
242] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
243] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
244] 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.
245] 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.
246] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
247] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
248] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
249] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
250] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
251] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
252] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
253] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
254] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
255] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
256] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
257] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
258] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
259] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
260] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
261] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
262] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
263] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
264] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
265] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
266] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
267] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
268] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
269] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
270] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
271] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
272] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
273] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
274] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
275] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
276] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
277] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
278] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
279] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
280] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
281] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
282] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
283] 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.
284] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
285] 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
286] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
287] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
288] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
289] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
290] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
291] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
292] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
293] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
294] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
295] 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.
296] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
297] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
298] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
299] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
300] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
301] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
302] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
303] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
304] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
305] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
306] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
307] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
308] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
309] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
310] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
311] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
312] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
313] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
314] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
315] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
316] 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)
317] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
318] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
319] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
320] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
321] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
322] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
323] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
324] 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.
325] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
326] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
327] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
328] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
329] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
330] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
331] 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)
332] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
333] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
334] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
335] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
336] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
337] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
338] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
339] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
340] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
341] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
342] 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
343] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
344] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
345] 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.
346] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
347] 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
348] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
349] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
350] 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.
351] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
352] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
353] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
354] 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)
355] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
356] 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.
357] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
358] 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
359] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
360] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
361] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
362] 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.
363] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
364] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
365] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
366] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
367] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
368] 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
369] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
370] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
371] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
372] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
373] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
374] 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.
375] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
376] 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
377] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
378] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
379] 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
380] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
381] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
382] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
383] 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
384] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
385] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
386] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
387] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
388] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
389] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
390] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
391] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
392] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
393] 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
394] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
395] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
396] 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)
397] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
398] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
400] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
401] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
402] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
403] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
404] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
405] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
406] 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.
407] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
408] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
409] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
410] 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)
411] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
412] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
413] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
414] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
415] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
416] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
417] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
418] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
419] 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.
420] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
421] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
422] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
423] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
424] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
425] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
426] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
427] 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)
428] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
429] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
430] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
431] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
432] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
433] 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.
434] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
435] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
436] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
437] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
438] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
439] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
440] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
441] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
442] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
443] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
444] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
445] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
446] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
447] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
448] 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.
449] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
450] 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)
451] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
452] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
453] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
454] 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.
455] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
456] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
457] 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.
458] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
459] 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.
460] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
461] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
462] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
463] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
464] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
465] 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 .
466] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
467] 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.
468] 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.
469] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
470] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
471] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
472] 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)
473] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
474] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
475] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
476] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
477] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
478] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
479] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
480] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
481] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
482] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
483] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
484] 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.
485] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
486] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
487] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
488] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
489] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
490] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
491] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
492] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
493] 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
494] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
495] 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.
496] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
497] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
498] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
499] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
500] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
501] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
502] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
503] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
504] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
505] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
506] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
507] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
508] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
509] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
510] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
511] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
512] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
513] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
514] 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
515] 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)
516] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
517] 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.
518] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
519] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
520] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
521] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
522] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
523] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
524] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
525] 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.
526] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
527] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
528] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
529] 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).
530] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
531] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
532] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
533] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
534] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
535] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
536] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
537] 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.
538] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
539] 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
540] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
541] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
542] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
543] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
544] 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)
545] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
546] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
547] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
548] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
549] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
550] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
551] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
552] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
553] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
554] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
555] 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
556] 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.
557] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
558] 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
559] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
560] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
561] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
562] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
563] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
564] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
565] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
566] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
567] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
568] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
569] 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.
570] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
571] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
572] 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.
573] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
574] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
575] 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)
576] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
577] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
578] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
579] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
580] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
581] 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.
582] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
583] 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
584] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
585] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
586] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
587] 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.
588] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
589] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
590] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
591] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
592] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
593] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
594] 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.
595] 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
596] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
597] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
598] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
599] 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
600] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler



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