Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
3] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
4] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
5] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
6] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
7] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
8] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
9] 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.
10] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
11] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
12] 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
13] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
14] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
15] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
16] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
17] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
18] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
19] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
20] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
21] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
22] 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.
23] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
24] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
25] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
26] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
27] 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.
28] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
29] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
30] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
31] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
32] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
33] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
34] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
35] 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)
36] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
37] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
38] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
39] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
40] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
41] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
42] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
43] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
44] 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.
45] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
46] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
47] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
48] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
49] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
50] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
51] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
52] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
53] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
54] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
55] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
56] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
57] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
58] 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
59] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
60] 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.
61] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
62] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
63] 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.
64] 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)
65] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
66] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
67] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
68] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
69] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
70] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
71] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
72] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
73] 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).
74] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
75] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
76] 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.
77] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
78] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
79] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
80] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
81] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
82] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
83] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
84] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
85] 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
86] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
87] 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.
88] 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
89] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
90] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
91] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
92] 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
93] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
94] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
95] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
96] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
97] 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.
98] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
99] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
100] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
101] 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
102] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
103] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
104] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
105] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
106] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
107] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
108] 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.
109] 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
110] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
111] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
112] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
113] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
114] 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.
115] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
116] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
117] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
118] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
119] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
120] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
121] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
122] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
123] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
124] 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
125] 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.
126] 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.
127] 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.
128] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
129] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
130] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
131] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
132] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
133] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
134] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
135] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
136] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
137] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
138] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
139] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
140] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
141] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
142] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
143] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
144] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
145] 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
146] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
147] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
148] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
149] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
150] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
151] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
152] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
153] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
154] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
155] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
156] 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.
157] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
158] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
159] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
160] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
161] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
162] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
163] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
164] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
165] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
166] 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
167] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
168] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
169] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
170] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
171] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
172] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
173] 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
174] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
175] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
176] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
177] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
178] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
179] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
180] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
181] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
182] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
183] 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)
184] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
185] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
186] 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
187] 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.
188] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
189] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
190] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
191] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
192] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
193] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
194] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
195] 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
196] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
197] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
198] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
199] 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
200] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
201] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
202] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
203] 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]
204] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
205] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
206] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
207] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
208] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
209] 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.
210] 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.
211] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
212] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
213] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
214] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
215] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
216] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
217] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
218] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
219] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
220] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
221] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
222] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
223] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
224] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
225] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
226] 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
227] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
228] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
229] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
230] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
231] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
232] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
233] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
234] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
235] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
236] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
237] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
238] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
239] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
240] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
241] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
242] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
243] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
244] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
245] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
246] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
247] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
248] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
249] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
250] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
251] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
252] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
253] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
254] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
255] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
256] 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.
257] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
258] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
259] 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
260] 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
261] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
262] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
263] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
264] 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
265] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
266] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
267] 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.
268] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
269] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
270] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
271] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
272] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
273] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
274] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
275] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
276] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
277] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
278] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
279] 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
280] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
281] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
282] 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.
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] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
285] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
286] 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.
287] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
288] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
289] 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.
290] 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.
291] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
292] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
293] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
294] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
295] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
296] 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
297] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
298] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
299] 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.
300] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
301] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
302] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
303] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
304] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
305] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
306] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
307] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
308] 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)
309] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
310] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
311] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
312] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
313] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
314] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
315] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
316] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
317] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
318] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
319] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
320] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
321] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
322] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
323] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
324] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
325] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
326] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
327] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
328] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
329] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
330] 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.
331] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
332] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
333] 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
334] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
335] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
336] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
337] 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
338] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
339] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
340] 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
341] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
342] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
343] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
344] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
345] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
346] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
347] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
348] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
349] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
350] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
351] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
352] 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.
353] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
354] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
355] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
356] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
357] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
358] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
359] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
360] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
361] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
362] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
363] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
364] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
365] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
366] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
367] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
368] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
369] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
370] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
371] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
372] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
373] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
374] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
375] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
376] 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.
377] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
378] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
379] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
380] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
381] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
382] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
383] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
384] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
385] 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)
386] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
387] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
388] 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.
389] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
390] 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
391] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
392] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
393] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
394] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
395] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
396] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
397] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
398] 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
399] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
400] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
401] 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
402] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
403] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
404] 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.
405] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
406] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
407] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
408] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
409] 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)
410] 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
411] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
412] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
413] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
414] 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.
415] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
416] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
417] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
418] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
419] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
420] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
421] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
422] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
423] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
424] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
425] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
426] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
427] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
428] 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
429] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
430] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
431] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
432] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
433] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
434] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
435] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
436] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
437] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
438] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
439] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
440] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
441] 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.
442] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
443] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
444] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
445] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
446] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
447] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
448] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
449] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
450] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
451] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
452] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
453] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
454] 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.
455] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
456] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
457] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
458] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
459] 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)
460] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
461] 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.
462] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
463] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
464] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
465] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
466] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
467] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
468] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
469] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
470] 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)
471] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
472] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
473] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
474] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
475] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
476] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
477] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
478] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
479] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
480] 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.
481] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
482] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
483] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
484] 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
485] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
486] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
487] 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.
488] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
489] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
490] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
491] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
492] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
493] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
494] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
495] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
496] 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.
497] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
498] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
499] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
500] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
501] 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.
502] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
503] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
504] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
505] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
506] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
507] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
508] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
509] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
510] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
511] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
512] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
513] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
514] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
515] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
516] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
517] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
518] 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
519] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
520] 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.
521] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
522] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
523] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
524] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
525] 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)
526] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
527] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
528] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
529] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
530] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
531] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
532] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
533] 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.
534] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
535] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
536] 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.
537] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
538] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
539] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
540] 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)
541] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
542] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
543] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
544] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
545] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
546] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
547] 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)
548] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
549] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
550] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
551] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
552] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
553] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
554] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
555] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
556] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
557] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
558] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
559] 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.
560] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
561] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
562] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
563] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
564] 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.
565] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
566] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
567] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
568] 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.
569] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
570] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
571] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
572] 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.
573] 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.
574] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
575] 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)
576] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
577] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
578] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
579] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
580] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
581] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
582] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
583] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
584] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
585] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
586] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
587] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
588] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
589] 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)
590] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
591] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
592] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
593] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
594] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
595] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
596] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
597] 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
598] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
599] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
600] 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