Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
2] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
3] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
4] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
5] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
6] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
7] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
8] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
9] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
10] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
11] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
12] 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.
13] 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.
14] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
15] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
16] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
17] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
18] 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
19] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
20] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
21] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
22] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
23] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
24] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
25] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
26] 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
27] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
28] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
29] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
30] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
31] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
32] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
33] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
34] 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)
35] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
36] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
37] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
38] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
39] 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.
40] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
41] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
42] 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.
43] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
44] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
45] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
46] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
47] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
48] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
49] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
50] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
51] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
52] 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.
53] 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
54] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
55] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
56] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
57] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
58] 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.
59] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
60] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
61] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
62] 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.
63] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
64] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
65] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
66] 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.
67] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
68] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
69] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
70] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
71] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
72] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
73] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
74] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
75] 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
76] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
77] 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
78] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
79] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
80] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
81] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
82] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
83] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
84] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
85] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
86] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
87] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
88] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
89] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
90] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
91] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
92] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
93] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
94] 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)
95] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
96] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
97] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
98] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
99] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
100] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
101] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
102] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
103] 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
104] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
105] 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
106] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
107] 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.
108] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
109] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
110] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
111] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
112] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
113] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
114] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
115] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
116] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
117] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
118] 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)
119] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
120] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
121] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
122] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
123] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
124] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
125] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
126] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
127] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
128] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
129] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
130] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
131] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
132] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
133] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
134] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
135] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
136] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
137] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
138] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
139] 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
140] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
141] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
142] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
143] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
144] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
145] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
146] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
147] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
148] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
149] 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.”
150] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
151] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
152] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
153] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
154] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
155] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
156] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
157] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
158] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
159] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
160] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
161] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
162] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
163] 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.”
164] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
165] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
166] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
167] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
168] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
169] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
170] 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)
171] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
172] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
173] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
174] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
175] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
176] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
177] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
178] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
179] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
180] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
181] 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.
182] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
183] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
184] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
185] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
186] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
187] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
188] 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.
189] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
190] 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)
191] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
192] 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
193] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
194] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
195] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
196] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
197] 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
198] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
199] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
200] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
201] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
202] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
203] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
204] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
205] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
206] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
207] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
208] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
209] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
210] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
211] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
212] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
213] 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
214] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
215] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
216] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
217] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
218] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
219] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
220] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
221] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
222] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
223] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
224] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
225] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
226] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
227] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
228] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
229] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
230] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
231] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
232] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
233] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
234] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
235] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
236] 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)
237] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
238] 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.
239] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
240] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
241] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
242] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
243] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
244] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
245] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
246] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
247] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
248] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
249] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
250] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
251] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
252] 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.
253] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
254] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
255] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
256] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
257] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
258] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
259] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
260] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
261] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
262] 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
263] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
264] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
265] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
266] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
267] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
268] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
269] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
270] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
271] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
272] 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.
273] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
274] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
275] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
276] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
277] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
278] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
279] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
280] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
281] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
282] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
283] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
284] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
285] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
286] 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
287] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
288] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
289] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
290] 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
291] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
292] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
293] 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
294] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
295] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
296] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
297] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
298] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
299] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
300] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
301] 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.
302] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
303] 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
304] 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
305] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
306] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
307] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
308] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
309] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
310] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
311] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
312] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
313] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
314] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
315] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
316] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
317] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
318] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
319] 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).
320] 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.
321] 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
322] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
323] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
324] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
325] 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)
326] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
328] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
329] 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
330] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
331] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
332] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
333] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
334] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
335] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
336] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
337] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
338] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
339] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
340] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
341] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
342] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
343] 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)
344] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
345] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
346] 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.
347] 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)
348] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
349] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
350] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
351] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
352] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
353] 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)
354] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
355] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
356] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
357] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
358] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
359] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
360] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
361] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
362] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
363] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
364] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
365] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
366] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
367] 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.
368] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
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] 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.
371] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
372] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
373] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
374] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
375] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
376] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
377] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
378] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
379] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
380] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
381] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
382] 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
383] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
384] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
385] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
386] 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
387] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
388] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
389] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
390] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
391] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
392] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
393] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
394] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
395] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
396] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
397] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
398] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
399] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
400] 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)
401] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
402] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
403] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
404] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
405] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
406] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
407] 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
408] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
409] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
410] 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
411] 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.
412] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
413] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
414] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
415] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
416] 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.
417] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
418] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
419] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
420] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
421] 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.
422] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
423] 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.
424] 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.
425] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
426] 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.
427] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
428] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
429] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
430] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
431] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
432] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
433] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
434] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
435] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
436] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
437] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
438] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
439] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
440] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
441] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
442] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
443] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
444] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
445] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
446] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
447] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
448] 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.
449] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
450] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
451] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
452] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
453] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
454] 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).
455] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
456] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
457] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
458] 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.
459] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
460] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
461] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
462] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
463] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
464] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
465] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
466] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
467] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
468] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
469] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
470] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
471] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
472] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
473] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
474] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
475] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
476] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
477] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
478] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
479] 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
480] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
481] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
482] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
483] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
484] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
485] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
486] 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
487] 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.
488] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
489] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
490] 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.
491] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
492] 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
493] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
494] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
495] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
496] 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
497] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
498] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
499] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
500] 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
501] 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
502] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
503] 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.
504] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
505] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
506] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
507] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
508] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
509] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
510] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
511] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
512] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
513] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
514] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
515] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
516] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
517] 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
518] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
519] 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]
520] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
521] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
522] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
523] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
524] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
525] 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.
526] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
527] 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
528] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
529] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
530] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
531] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
533] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
534] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
535] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
536] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
537] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
538] 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.
539] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
540] 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
541] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
542] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
543] 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
544] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
545] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
546] 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.
547] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
548] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
549] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
550] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
551] 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.
552] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
553] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
554] 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
555] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
556] 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
557] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
558] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
559] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
560] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
561] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
562] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
563] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
564] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
565] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
566] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
567] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
568] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
569] 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
570] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
571] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
572] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
573] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
574] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
575] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
576] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
577] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
578] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
579] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
580] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
581] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
582] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
583] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
584] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
585] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
586] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
587] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
588] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
589] 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.
590] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
591] 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.
592] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
593] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
594] 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.
595] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
596] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
597] 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.
598] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
599] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
600] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)