Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
2] 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)
3] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
4] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
5] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
6] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
7] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
8] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
9] 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.
10] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
11] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
12] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
13] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
14] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
15] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
16] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
17] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
18] 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]
19] 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
20] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
21] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
22] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
23] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
24] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
25] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
26] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
27] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
28] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
29] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
30] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
31] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
32] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
33] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
34] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
35] 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.
36] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
37] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
38] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
40] 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
41] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
42] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
43] 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
44] 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.
45] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
46] 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)
47] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
48] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
49] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
50] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
51] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
52] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
53] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
54] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
55] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
56] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
57] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
58] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
59] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
60] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
61] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
62] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
63] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
64] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
65] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
66] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
67] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
68] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
69] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
70] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
71] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
72] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
73] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
74] 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
75] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
76] 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.
77] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
78] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
79] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
80] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
81] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
82] 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
83] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
84] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
85] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
86] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
87] 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
88] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
89] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
91] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
92] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
93] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
94] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
95] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
96] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
97] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
98] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
99] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
100] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
101] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
102] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
103] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
104] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
105] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
106] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
107] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
108] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
109] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
110] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
111] 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
112] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
113] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
114] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
115] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
116] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
117] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
118] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
119] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
120] 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.
121] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
122] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
123] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
124] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
125] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
126] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
127] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
128] 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)
129] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
130] 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.
131] 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.
132] 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.
133] 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)
134] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
135] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
136] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
137] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
138] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
139] 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
140] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
141] 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
142] 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.
143] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
144] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
145] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
146] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
147] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
148] 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.
149] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
150] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
151] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
152] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
153] 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)
154] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
155] 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.
156] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
157] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
158] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
159] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
160] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
161] 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
162] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
163] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
164] 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.
165] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
166] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
167] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
168] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
169] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
170] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
171] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
172] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
173] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
174] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
175] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
176] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
177] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
178] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
179] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
180] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
181] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
182] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
183] 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.”
184] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
185] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
186] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
187] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
188] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
189] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
190] 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.
191] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
192] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
193] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
194] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
195] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
196] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
197] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
198] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
199] 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.
200] 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.
201] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
202] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
203] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
204] 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)
205] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
206] 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)
207] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
208] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
209] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
210] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
211] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
212] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
213] 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.
214] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
215] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
216] 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)
217] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
218] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
219] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
220] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
221] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
222] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
223] 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
224] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
225] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
226] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
227] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
228] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
229] 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
230] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
231] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
232] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
233] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
234] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
235] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
236] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
237] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
238] 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.
239] 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.
240] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
241] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
242] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
243] 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.
244] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
245] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
246] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
247] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
248] 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.
249] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
250] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
251] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
252] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
253] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
254] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
255] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
256] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
257] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
258] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
259] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
260] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
261] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
262] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
263] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
264] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
265] 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
266] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
267] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
268] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
269] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
270] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
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] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
273] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
274] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
275] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
276] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
277] 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)
278] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
279] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
280] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
281] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
282] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
283] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
284] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
285] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
286] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
287] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
288] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
289] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
290] 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
291] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
292] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
293] 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
294] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
295] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
296] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
297] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
298] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
299] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
300] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
301] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
302] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
303] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
304] 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.
305] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
306] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
307] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
308] 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)
309] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
310] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
311] 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
312] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
313] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
314] 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)
315] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
316] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
317] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
318] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
319] 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.
320] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
321] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
322] 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.
323] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
324] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
325] 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
326] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
327] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
328] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
329] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
330] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
331] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
332] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
333] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
334] 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.
335] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
336] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
337] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
338] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
339] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
340] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
341] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
342] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
343] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
344] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
345] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
346] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
347] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
348] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
349] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
350] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
351] 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.
352] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
353] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
354] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
355] 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]
356] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
357] 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)
358] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
359] 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.
360] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
361] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
362] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
363] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
364] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
365] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
366] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
367] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
368] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
369] 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.
370] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
371] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
372] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
373] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
374] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
375] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
376] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
377] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
378] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
379] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
380] 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.
381] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
382] 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)
383] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
384] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
385] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
386] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
387] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
388] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
389] 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
390] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
391] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
392] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
393] 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.
394] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
395] 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.
396] 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)
397] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
398] 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.
399] 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
400] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
401] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
402] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
403] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
404] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
405] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
406] 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
407] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
408] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
409] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
410] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
411] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
412] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
413] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
414] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
415] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
416] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
417] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
418] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
419] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
420] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
421] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
422] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
423] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
424] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
425] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
426] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
427] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
428] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
429] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
430] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
431] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
432] 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)
433] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
434] 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.
435] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
436] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
437] 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)
438] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
439] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
440] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
441] 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
442] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
443] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
444] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
445] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
446] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
447] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
448] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
449] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
450] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
451] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
452] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
453] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
454] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
455] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
456] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
457] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
458] 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.
459] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
460] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
461] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
462] 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 .
463] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
464] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
465] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
466] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
467] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
468] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
469] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
470] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
471] 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.
472] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
473] 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.
474] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
475] 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)
476] 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
477] 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
478] 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
479] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
480] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
481] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
482] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
483] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
484] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
485] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
486] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
487] 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
488] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
489] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
490] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
491] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
492] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
493] 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
494] 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
495] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
497] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
498] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
499] 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)
500] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
501] 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.
502] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
503] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
504] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
505] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
506] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
507] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
508] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
509] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
510] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
511] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
512] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
513] 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.
514] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
515] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
516] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
517] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
518] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
519] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
520] 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.
521] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
522] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
523] 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.
524] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
525] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
526] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
527] 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
528] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
529] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
530] 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.
531] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
532] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
533] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
534] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
535] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
536] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
537] 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)
538] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
539] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
540] 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.
541] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
542] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
543] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
544] 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
545] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
546] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
547] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
548] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
549] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
550] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
551] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
552] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
553] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
554] 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.
555] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
556] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
557] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
558] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
559] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
560] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
561] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
562] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
563] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
564] 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)
565] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
566] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
567] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
568] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
569] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
570] 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
571] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
572] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
573] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
574] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
575] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
576] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
577] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
578] 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.
579] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
580] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
581] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
582] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
583] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
584] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
585] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
586] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
587] 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.
588] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
589] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
590] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
591] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
592] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
593] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
594] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
595] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
596] 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
597] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
598] 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)
599] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
600] 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)