Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
2] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
3] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
4] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
5] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
6] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
7] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
8] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
9] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
10] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
11] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
12] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
13] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
14] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
16] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
17] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
18] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
19] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
20] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
21] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
22] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
23] 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
24] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
25] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
26] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
27] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
28] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
29] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
30] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
31] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
32] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
33] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
34] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
35] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
36] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
37] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
38] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
39] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
40] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
41] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
42] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
43] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
44] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
45] 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.
46] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
47] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
48] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
49] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
50] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
51] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
52] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
53] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
54] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
55] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
56] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
57] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
58] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
59] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
60] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
61] 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
62] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
63] 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)
64] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
65] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
66] 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
67] 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
68] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
69] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
70] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
71] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
72] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
73] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
74] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
75] 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.
76] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
77] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
78] 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.
79] 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.
80] 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.
81] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
82] 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)
83] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
84] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
85] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
86] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
87] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
88] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
89] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
90] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
91] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
92] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
93] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
94] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
95] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
96] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
97] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
98] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
99] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
100] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
101] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
102] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
103] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
104] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
105] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
106] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
107] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
108] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
109] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
110] 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)
111] 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.
112] 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
113] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
114] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
115] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
116] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
117] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
118] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
119] 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
120] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
121] 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)
122] 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)
123] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
124] 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
125] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
126] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
127] 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)
128] 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.
129] 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)
130] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
131] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
132] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
133] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
134] 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.
135] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
136] 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
137] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
138] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
139] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
140] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
141] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
142] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
143] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
144] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
145] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
146] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
147] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
148] 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.
149] 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.
150] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
151] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
152] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
153] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
154] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
155] 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)
156] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
157] 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.
158] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
159] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
160] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
161] 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)
162] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
163] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
164] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
165] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
166] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
167] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
168] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
169] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
170] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
171] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
172] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
173] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
174] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
175] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
176] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
177] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
178] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
179] 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.
180] 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
181] 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.
182] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
183] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
184] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
185] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
186] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
187] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
188] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
189] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
190] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
191] 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.
192] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
193] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
194] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
195] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
196] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
197] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
198] 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
199] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
200] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
201] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
202] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
203] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
204] 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.
205] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
206] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
207] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
208] 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
209] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
210] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
211] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
212] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
213] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
214] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
215] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
216] 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.
217] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
218] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
219] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
220] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
221] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
222] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
223] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
224] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
225] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
226] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
227] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
228] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
229] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
230] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
231] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
232] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
233] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
234] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
235] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
236] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
237] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
238] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
239] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
240] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
241] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
242] 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
243] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
244] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
245] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
246] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
247] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
248] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
249] 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)
250] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
251] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
252] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
253] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
254] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
255] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
256] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
257] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
258] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
259] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
260] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
261] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
262] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
263] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
264] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
265] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
266] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
267] 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.
268] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
269] 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
270] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
271] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
272] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
273] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
274] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
275] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
276] 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
277] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
278] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
279] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
280] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
281] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
282] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
283] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
284] 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.
285] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
286] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
287] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
288] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
289] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
290] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
291] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
292] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
293] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
294] 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.
295] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
296] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
297] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
298] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
299] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
300] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
301] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
302] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
303] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
304] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
305] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
306] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
307] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
308] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
309] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
310] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
311] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
312] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
313] 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.
314] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
315] 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).
316] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
317] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
318] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
319] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
320] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
322] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
323] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
324] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
325] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
326] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
328] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
329] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
330] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
331] 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.
332] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
333] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
334] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
335] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
336] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
337] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
338] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
339] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
340] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
341] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
342] 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
343] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
344] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
345] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
346] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
347] 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)
348] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
349] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
350] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
351] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
352] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
353] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
354] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
355] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
356] 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
357] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
358] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
359] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
360] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
361] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
362] 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)
363] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
364] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
365] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
366] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
367] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
368] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
369] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
370] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
371] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
372] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
373] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
374] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
375] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
376] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
377] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
378] 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
379] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
380] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
381] 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.
382] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
383] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
384] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
385] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
386] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
387] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
388] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
389] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
390] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
391] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
392] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
393] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
394] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
395] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
396] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
397] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
398] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
399] 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)
400] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
401] 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
402] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
403] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
404] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
405] 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
406] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
407] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
408] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
409] 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.
410] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
411] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
412] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
413] 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
414] 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)
415] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
416] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
417] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
418] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
419] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
420] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
421] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
422] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
423] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
424] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
425] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
426] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
427] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
428] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
429] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
430] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
431] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
432] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
433] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
434] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
435] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
436] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
437] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
438] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
439] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
440] 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.
441] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
442] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
443] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
444] 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
445] 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)
446] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
447] 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
448] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
449] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
450] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
451] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
452] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
453] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
454] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
455] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
456] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
457] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
458] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
459] 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
460] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
461] 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
462] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
463] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
464] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
465] 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).
466] 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
467] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
468] 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.
469] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
470] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
471] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
472] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
473] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
474] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
475] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
476] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
477] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
478] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
479] 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.
480] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
481] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
482] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
483] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
484] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
485] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
486] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
487] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
488] Commonsense is not so common.
489] 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.
490] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
491] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
492] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
493] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
494] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
495] 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
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] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
498] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
499] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
500] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
501] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
502] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
503] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
504] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
505] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
506] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
507] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
508] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
509] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
510] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
511] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
512] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
513] 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.
514] 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
515] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
516] 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
517] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
518] 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.
519] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
520] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
521] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
522] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
523] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
524] 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
525] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
526] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
527] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
528] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
529] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
530] 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
531] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
532] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
533] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
534] 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.
535] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
536] 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
537] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
538] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
539] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
540] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
541] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
542] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
543] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
544] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
545] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
546] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
547] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
548] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
549] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
550] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
551] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
552] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
553] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
554] 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.
555] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
556] 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.
557] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
558] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
559] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
560] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
561] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
562] 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)
563] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
564] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
565] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
566] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
567] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
568] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
569] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
570] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
571] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
572] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
573] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
574] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
575] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
576] 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.
577] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
578] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
579] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
580] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
581] 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)
582] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
583] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
584] 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
585] 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.
586] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
587] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
588] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
589] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
590] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
591] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
592] 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.
593] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
594] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
595] 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
596] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
597] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
598] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
599] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
600] 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.