Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
2] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
3] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
4] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
5] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
7] 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
8] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
9] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
10] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
11] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
12] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
13] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
14] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
15] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
16] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
17] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
18] 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
19] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
20] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
21] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
22] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
23] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
24] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
25] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
26] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
27] 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.
28] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
29] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
30] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
31] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
32] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
33] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
34] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
35] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
36] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
37] 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.
38] 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)
39] 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
40] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
41] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
42] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
43] 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.
44] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
45] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
46] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
47] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
48] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
49] 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 .
50] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
51] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
52] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
53] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
54] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
55] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
56] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
57] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
58] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
59] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
60] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
61] 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)
62] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
63] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
64] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
65] 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.
66] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
67] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
68] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
69] 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
70] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
71] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
72] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
73] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
74] 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
75] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
76] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
77] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
78] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
79] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
80] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
81] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
82] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
83] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
84] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
85] 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.
86] 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)
87] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
88] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
89] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
90] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
91] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
92] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
93] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
94] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
95] 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.
96] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
97] 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
98] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
99] 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.
100] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
101] 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
102] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
103] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
104] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
105] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
106] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
107] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
108] 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)
109] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
110] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
111] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
112] 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.
113] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
114] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
115] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
116] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
117] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
118] 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.
119] 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.
120] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
121] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
122] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
123] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
124] 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
125] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
126] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
127] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
128] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
129] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
130] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
131] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
132] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
133] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
134] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
135] 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
136] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
137] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
138] 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
139] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
140] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
141] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
142] 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)
143] 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.
144] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
145] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
146] 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
147] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
148] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
149] 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.
150] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
151] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
152] 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.
153] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
154] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
155] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
156] 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.
157] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
158] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
159] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
160] 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
161] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
162] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
163] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
164] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
165] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
166] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
167] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
168] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
169] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
170] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
171] 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.
172] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
173] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
174] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
175] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
176] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
177] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
178] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
179] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
180] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
181] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
182] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
183] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
184] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
185] 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
186] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
187] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
188] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
189] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
190] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
191] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
192] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
193] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
194] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
195] 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.
196] 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
197] 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.
198] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
199] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
200] 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.
201] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
202] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
203] 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.
204] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
205] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
206] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
207] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
208] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
209] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
210] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
211] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
212] 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)
213] 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)
214] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
215] 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
216] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
217] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
218] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
219] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
220] 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.
221] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
222] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
223] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
224] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
225] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
226] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
227] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
228] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
229] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
230] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
231] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
232] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
233] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
234] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
235] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
236] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
237] 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.
238] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
239] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
240] 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.
241] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
242] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
243] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
244] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
245] 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)
246] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
247] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
248] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
249] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
250] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
251] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
252] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
253] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
254] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
255] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
256] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
257] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
258] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
259] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
260] 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.
261] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
262] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
263] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
264] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
265] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
266] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
267] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
268] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
269] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
270] 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.
271] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
272] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
273] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
274] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
275] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
276] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
277] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
278] 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.
279] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
280] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
281] 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.
282] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
283] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
284] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
285] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
286] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
287] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
288] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
289] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
290] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
291] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
292] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
293] 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)
294] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
295] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
296] 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
297] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
298] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
299] 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.
300] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
301] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
302] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
303] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
304] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
305] 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
306] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
307] 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)
308] 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.
309] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
310] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
311] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
312] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
313] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
314] 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.
315] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
316] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
317] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
318] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
319] 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
320] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
321] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
322] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
324] 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)
325] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
326] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
327] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
328] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
329] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
330] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
331] 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.
332] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
333] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
334] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
335] 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.
336] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
337] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
338] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
339] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
340] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
341] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
342] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
343] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
344] 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.
345] 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.
346] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
347] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
348] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
349] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
350] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
351] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
352] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
353] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
354] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
355] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
356] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
357] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
358] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
359] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
360] The 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
361] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
362] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
363] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
364] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
365] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
366] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
367] 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
368] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
369] 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
370] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
371] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
372] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
373] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
374] 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.
375] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
376] 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.
377] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
378] 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.
379] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
380] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
381] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
382] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
383] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
384] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
385] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
386] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
387] 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)
388] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
389] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
390] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
391] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
392] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
393] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
394] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
395] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
396] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
397] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
398] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
399] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
400] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
401] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
402] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
403] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
404] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
405] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
406] 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.
407] 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)
408] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
409] 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
410] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
411] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
412] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
413] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
414] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
415] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
416] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
417] 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
418] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
419] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
420] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
421] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
422] 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
423] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
424] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
425] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
426] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
427] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
428] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
429] 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
430] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
431] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
432] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
433] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
434] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
435] 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
436] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
437] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
438] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
439] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
440] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
441] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
442] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
443] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
444] 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.
445] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
446] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
447] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
448] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
449] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
450] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
451] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
452] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
453] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
454] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
455] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
456] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
457] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
458] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
459] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
460] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
461] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
462] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
463] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
464] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
465] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
466] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
467] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
468] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
469] 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.
470] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
471] 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)
472] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
473] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
474] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
475] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
476] 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
477] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
478] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
479] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
480] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
481] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
482] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
483] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
484] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
485] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
486] 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.
487] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
488] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
489] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
490] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
491] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
492] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
493] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
494] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
495] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
496] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
497] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
498] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
499] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
500] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
501] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
502] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
503] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
504] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
505] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
506] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
507] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
508] 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.
509] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
510] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
511] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
512] 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
513] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
514] 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
515] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
516] 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.
517] 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)
518] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
519] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
520] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
521] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
522] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
523] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
524] 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.
525] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
526] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
527] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
528] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
529] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
530] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
531] 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)
532] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
533] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
534] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
535] 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)
536] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
537] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
538] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
539] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
540] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
541] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
542] 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
543] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
544] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
545] 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.
546] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
547] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
548] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
549] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
550] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
551] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
552] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
553] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
554] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
555] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
556] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
557] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
558] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
559] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
560] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
561] 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.
562] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
563] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
564] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
565] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
566] 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
567] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
568] 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)
569] 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.
570] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
571] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
572] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
573] 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]
574] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
575] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
576] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
577] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
578] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
579] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
581] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
582] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
583] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
584] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
585] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
586] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
587] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
588] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
589] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
590] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
591] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
592] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
593] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
594] 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
595] 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
596] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
597] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
598] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
599] 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.
600] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.