Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
2] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
3] 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 .
4] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
5] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
6] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
8] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
9] 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.
10] 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
11] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
12] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
13] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
14] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
15] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
16] 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.
17] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
18] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
19] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
20] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
21] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
22] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
23] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
24] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
25] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
26] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
27] 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
28] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
29] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
30] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
31] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
32] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
33] 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.
34] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
35] 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)
36] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
37] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
38] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
39] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
40] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
41] 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.
42] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
43] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
44] 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
45] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
47] 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
48] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
49] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
50] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
51] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
52] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
53] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
54] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
55] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
56] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
57] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
58] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
59] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
60] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
61] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
62] 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.
63] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
64] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
65] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
66] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
67] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
68] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
69] 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
70] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
71] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
72] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
73] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
74] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
75] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
76] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
77] 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)
78] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
79] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
80] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
81] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
82] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
83] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
84] 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.
85] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
86] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
87] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
88] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
89] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
90] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
91] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
92] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
93] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
94] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
95] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
96] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
97] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
99] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
100] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
101] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
102] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
103] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
104] 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.
105] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
106] 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.
107] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
108] 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.
109] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
110] 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
111] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
112] 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.
113] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
114] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
115] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
116] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
117] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
118] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
119] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
120] 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
121] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
122] 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.
123] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
124] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
125] 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
126] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
127] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
128] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
129] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
130] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
131] 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.
132] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
133] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
134] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
135] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
136] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
137] 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)
138] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
139] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
140] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
141] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
142] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
143] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
144] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
145] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
146] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
147] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
148] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
149] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
150] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
151] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
152] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
153] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
154] 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.
155] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
156] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
157] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
158] 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.
159] 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.
160] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
161] 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)
162] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
163] 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.
164] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
165] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
166] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
167] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
168] 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.
169] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
170] 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.
171] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
172] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
173] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
174] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
175] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
176] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
177] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
178] 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.
179] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
180] 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
181] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
182] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
183] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
184] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
185] 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
186] 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)
187] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
188] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
189] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
190] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
191] 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.
192] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
193] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
194] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
195] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
196] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
197] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
198] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
199] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
200] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
201] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
202] 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.
203] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
204] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
205] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
206] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
207] 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.
208] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
209] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
210] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
211] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
212] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
213] 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
214] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
215] 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.
216] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
217] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
218] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
219] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
220] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
221] 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.
222] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
223] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
224] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
225] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
226] 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
227] 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.
228] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
229] 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.”
230] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
231] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
232] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
233] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
234] 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 .
235] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
236] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
237] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
238] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
239] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
240] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
241] 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.
242] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
243] 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
244] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
245] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
246] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
247] 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.
248] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
249] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
250] 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)
251] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
252] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
253] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
254] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
255] 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.
256] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
257] 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
258] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
259] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
260] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
261] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
262] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
263] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
264] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
265] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
266] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
267] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
268] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
269] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
270] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
271] 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)
272] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
273] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
274] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
275] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
276] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
277] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
278] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
279] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
280] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
281] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
282] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
283] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
284] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
285] 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
286] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
287] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
288] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
289] 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
290] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
291] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
292] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
293] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
294] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
295] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
296] 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)
297] 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.
298] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
299] 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.
300] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
301] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
302] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
303] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
304] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
305] 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)
306] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
307] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
308] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
309] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
310] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
311] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
312] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
313] 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.
314] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
315] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
316] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
317] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
318] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
319] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
320] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
322] 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.
323] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
324] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
325] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
326] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
327] 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.
328] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
329] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
330] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
331] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
332] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
333] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
334] 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.
335] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
336] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
337] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
338] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
339] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
340] 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.
341] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
342] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
343] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
344] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
345] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
346] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
347] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
348] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
349] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
350] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
351] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
352] 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
353] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
354] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
355] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
356] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
357] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
358] 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
359] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
360] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
361] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
362] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
363] 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
364] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
365] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
366] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
367] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
368] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
369] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
370] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
371] 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
372] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
373] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
374] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
375] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
376] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
377] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
378] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
379] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
380] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
381] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
382] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
383] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
384] 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.
385] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
386] 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.
387] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
388] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
389] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
390] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
391] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
392] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
393] 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.
394] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
395] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
396] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
397] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
398] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
399] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
400] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
401] 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
402] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
403] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
404] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
405] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
406] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
407] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
408] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
409] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
410] 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
411] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
412] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
413] 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)
414] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
415] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
416] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
417] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
418] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
419] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
420] 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
421] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
422] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
423] 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.
424] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
425] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
426] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
427] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
428] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
429] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
430] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
431] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
432] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
433] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
434] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
436] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
437] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
438] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
439] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
440] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
441] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
442] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
443] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
444] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
445] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
446] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
447] 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.
448] 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.
449] 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.
450] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
451] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
452] 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)
453] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
454] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
455] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
456] 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.
457] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
458] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
459] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
460] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
461] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
462] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
463] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
464] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
465] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
466] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
467] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
468] 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.
469] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
470] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
471] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
472] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
473] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
474] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
475] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
476] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
477] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
478] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
479] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
480] 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.
481] 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.
482] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
483] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
484] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
485] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
486] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
487] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
488] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
489] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
490] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
491] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
492] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
493] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
494] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
495] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
496] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
497] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
498] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
499] 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
500] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
501] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
502] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
503] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
504] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
505] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
506] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
507] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
508] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
509] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
510] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
511] 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
512] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
513] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
514] 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
515] 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
516] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
517] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
518] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
519] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
520] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
521] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
522] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
523] 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.
524] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
525] 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
526] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
527] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
528] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
529] 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)
530] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
531] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
532] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
533] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
534] 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.
535] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
536] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
537] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
538] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
539] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
540] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
541] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
542] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
543] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
544] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
545] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
546] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
547] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
548] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
549] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
550] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
551] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
552] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
553] 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.
554] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
555] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
556] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
557] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
558] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
559] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
560] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
561] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
562] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
563] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
564] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
565] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
566] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
567] 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
568] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
569] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
570] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
571] 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)
572] 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.
573] 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
574] 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.
575] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
576] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
577] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
578] 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.
579] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
580] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
581] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
582] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
583] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
584] 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.
585] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
586] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
587] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
588] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
589] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
590] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
591] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
592] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
593] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
594] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
595] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
596] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
597] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
598] 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.
599] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
600] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.