Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
2] 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.
3] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
4] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
5] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
6] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
7] 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.
8] 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.
9] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
10] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
11] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
12] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
13] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
14] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
15] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
16] 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.
17] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
18] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
19] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
20] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
22] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
23] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
24] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
25] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
26] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
27] 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.
28] 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.
29] 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
30] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
31] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
32] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
33] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
34] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
35] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
36] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
37] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
38] 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
39] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
40] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
41] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
42] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
43] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
44] 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.
45] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
46] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
47] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
48] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
49] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
50] 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.
51] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
52] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
53] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
54] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
55] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
56] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
57] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
58] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
59] 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
60] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
61] 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.
62] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
63] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
64] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
65] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
66] 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.
67] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
68] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
69] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
70] 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.
71] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
72] 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.
73] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
74] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
75] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
76] 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.
77] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
78] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
79] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
80] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
81] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
82] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
83] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
84] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
85] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
86] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
87] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
88] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
89] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
90] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
91] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
92] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
93] 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
94] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
95] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
96] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
97] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
98] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
99] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
100] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
101] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
102] 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)
103] 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.
104] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
105] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
106] 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
107] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
108] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
109] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
110] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
111] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
112] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
113] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
114] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
115] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
116] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
117] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
118] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
119] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
120] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
121] 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 .
122] 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)
123] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
124] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
125] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
126] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
127] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
128] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
129] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
130] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
131] 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
132] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
133] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
134] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
135] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
136] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
137] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
138] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
139] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
140] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
141] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
142] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
143] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
144] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
145] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
146] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
147] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
148] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
149] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
150] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
151] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
152] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
153] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
154] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
155] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
156] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
157] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
158] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
159] 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
160] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
161] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
162] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
163] 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.
164] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
165] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
166] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
167] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
168] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
169] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
170] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
171] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
172] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
173] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
174] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
175] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
176] 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
177] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
178] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
179] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
180] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
181] 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
182] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
183] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
184] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
185] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
186] 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)
187] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
188] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
189] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
190] 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
191] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
192] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
193] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
194] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
195] 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]
196] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
197] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
198] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
199] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
200] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
201] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
202] 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
203] 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.
204] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
205] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
206] 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.
207] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
208] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
209] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
210] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
211] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
212] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
213] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
214] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
215] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
216] 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)
217] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
218] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
219] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
220] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
221] 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.
222] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
223] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
224] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
225] 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.
226] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
227] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
228] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
229] 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
230] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
231] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
232] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
233] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
234] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
235] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
236] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
237] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
238] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
239] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
240] 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.
241] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
242] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
243] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
244] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
245] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
246] 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.
247] 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
248] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
249] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
250] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
251] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
252] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
253] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
254] 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.
255] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
256] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
257] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
258] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
259] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
260] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
261] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
262] 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.
263] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
264] 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.
265] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
266] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
267] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
268] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
269] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
270] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
271] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
272] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
273] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
274] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
275] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
276] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
277] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
278] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
279] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
280] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
281] 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
282] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
283] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
284] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
285] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
286] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
287] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
288] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
289] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
290] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
291] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
292] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
293] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
294] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
295] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
296] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
297] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
298] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
299] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
300] 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
301] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
302] 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
303] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
304] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
305] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
306] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
307] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
308] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
309] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
310] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
311] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
312] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
313] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
314] 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 .
315] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
316] 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
317] 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)
318] 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)
319] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
320] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
321] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
322] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
323] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
324] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
325] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
326] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
327] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
328] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
329] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
330] 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.
331] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
332] 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).
333] 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.
334] 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
335] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
336] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
337] 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
338] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
339] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
340] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
341] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
342] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
343] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
344] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
345] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
346] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
347] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
348] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
349] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
350] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
351] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
352] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
353] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
354] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
355] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
356] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
357] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
358] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
359] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
360] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
361] 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
362] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
363] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
364] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
365] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
366] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
367] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
368] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
369] 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.
370] 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
371] 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
372] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
373] 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.
374] 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.
375] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
376] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
377] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
378] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
379] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
380] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
381] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
382] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
383] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
384] 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
385] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
386] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
387] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
388] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
389] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
390] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
391] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
392] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
393] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
394] 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)
395] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
396] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
397] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
398] 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
399] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
400] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
401] 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.
402] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
403] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
404] 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.
405] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
406] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
407] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
408] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
409] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
410] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
411] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
412] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
413] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
414] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
415] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
416] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
417] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
418] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
419] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
420] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
421] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
422] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
423] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
424] 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.
425] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
426] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
427] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
428] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
429] 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
430] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
431] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
432] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
433] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
434] 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
435] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
436] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
437] 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.
438] 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
439] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
440] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
441] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
442] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
443] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
444] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
445] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
446] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
447] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
448] 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)
449] 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.
450] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
451] 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.
452] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
453] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
454] 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.
455] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
456] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
457] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
458] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
459] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
460] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
461] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
462] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
463] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
464] 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.
465] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
466] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
467] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
468] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
469] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
470] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
471] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
472] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
473] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
474] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
475] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
476] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
477] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
478] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
479] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
480] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
481] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
482] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
483] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
484] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
485] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
486] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
487] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
488] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
489] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
490] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
491] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
492] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
493] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
494] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
495] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
496] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
497] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
498] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
499] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
500] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
501] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
502] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
503] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
504] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
505] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
506] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
507] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
508] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
509] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
510] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
511] 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.
512] 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)
513] 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
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] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
516] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
517] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
518] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
519] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
520] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
521] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
522] 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
523] 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
524] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
525] 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.
526] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
527] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
528] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
529] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
530] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
531] 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
532] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
533] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
534] 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.
535] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
536] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
537] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
538] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
539] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
540] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
541] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
542] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
543] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
544] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
545] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
546] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
547] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
548] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
549] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
550] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
551] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
552] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
553] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
554] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
555] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
556] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
557] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
558] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
559] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
560] 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
561] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
562] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
563] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
564] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
565] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
566] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
567] 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.
568] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
569] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
570] 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.
571] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
572] 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.
573] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
574] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
575] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
576] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
577] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
578] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
579] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
580] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
581] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
582] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
583] 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
584] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
585] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
586] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
587] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
588] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
589] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
590] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
591] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
592] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
593] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
594] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
595] 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.
596] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
597] 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.
598] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
599] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
600] 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.