Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
2] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
3] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
4] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
5] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
6] 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
7] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
8] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
9] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
10] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
11] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
12] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
13] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
14] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
15] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
16] 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.
17] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
18] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
19] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
20] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
21] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
22] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
23] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
24] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
25] 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.
26] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
27] 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
28] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
29] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
30] 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
31] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
32] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
33] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
34] 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
35] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
36] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
37] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
38] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
39] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
40] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
41] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
42] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
43] 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.
44] 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
45] 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
46] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
47] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
48] 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
49] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
50] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
51] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
52] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
53] 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.
54] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
55] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
56] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
57] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
58] 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.
59] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
60] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
61] 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.
62] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
63] 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.
64] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
65] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
66] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
67] 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.
68] 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.
69] 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)
70] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
71] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
72] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
73] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
74] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
75] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
76] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
77] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
78] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
79] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
80] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
81] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
82] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
83] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
84] 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.
85] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
86] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
87] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
88] 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
89] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
90] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
91] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
92] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
93] 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.”
94] 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.
95] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
96] 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)
97] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
98] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
99] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
100] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
101] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
102] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
103] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
104] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
105] 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
106] 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
107] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
108] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
109] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
110] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
111] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
112] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
113] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
114] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
115] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
116] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
117] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
118] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
119] 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
120] 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.
121] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
122] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
123] 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
124] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
125] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
126] 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)
127] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
128] 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
129] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
130] 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.
131] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
132] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
133] 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.
134] 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.
135] 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)
136] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
137] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
138] 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)
139] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
140] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
141] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
142] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
143] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
144] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
145] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
146] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
147] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
148] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
149] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
150] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
151] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
152] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
153] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
154] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
155] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
156] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
157] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
158] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
160] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
161] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
162] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
163] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
164] 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
165] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
166] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
167] 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
168] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
169] 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.
170] 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.
171] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
172] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
173] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
174] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
175] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
176] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
177] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
178] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
179] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
180] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
181] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
182] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
183] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
184] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
185] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
186] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
187] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
188] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
189] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
190] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
191] 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)
192] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
193] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
194] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
195] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
196] 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.
197] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
198] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
199] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
200] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
201] 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.
202] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
203] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
204] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
205] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
206] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
207] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
208] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
209] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
210] 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.
211] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
212] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
213] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
214] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
215] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
216] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
217] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
218] 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)
219] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
220] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
221] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
222] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
223] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
224] 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.
225] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
226] 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.
227] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
228] 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.
229] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
230] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
231] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
232] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
233] 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.
234] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
235] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
236] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
237] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
238] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
239] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
240] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
241] 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
242] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
243] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
244] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
245] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
246] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
247] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
248] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
249] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
250] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
251] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
252] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
253] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
254] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
255] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
256] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
257] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
258] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
259] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
260] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
261] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
262] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
263] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
264] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
265] 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
266] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
267] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
268] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
269] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
270] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
271] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
272] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
273] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
274] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
275] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
276] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
277] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
278] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
279] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
280] 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
281] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
282] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
283] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
284] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
285] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
286] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
287] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
288] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
289] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
290] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
291] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
292] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
293] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
294] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
295] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
296] 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
297] 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
298] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
299] 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)
300] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
301] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
302] 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.
303] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
304] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
305] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
306] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
307] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
308] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
309] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
310] 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
311] 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.
312] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
313] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
314] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
315] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
316] 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.
317] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
318] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
319] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
320] 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.
321] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
322] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
323] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
324] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
325] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
326] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
327] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
328] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
329] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
330] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
331] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
332] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
333] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
334] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
335] 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.
336] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
337] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
338] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
339] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
340] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
341] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
342] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
343] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
344] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
345] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
346] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
347] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
348] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
349] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
350] 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
351] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
352] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
353] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
354] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
355] 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
356] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
357] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
358] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
359] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
360] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
361] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
362] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
363] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
364] 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
365] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
366] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
367] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
368] 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
369] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
370] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
371] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
372] 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.
373] 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
374] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
375] 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.
376] 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
377] 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.
378] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
379] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
380] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
381] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
382] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
383] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
384] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
385] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
386] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
387] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
388] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
389] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
390] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
391] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
392] 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.
393] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
394] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
395] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
396] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
397] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
398] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
399] 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
400] 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.
401] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
402] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
403] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
404] 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)
405] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
406] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
407] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
408] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
409] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
410] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
411] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
412] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
413] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
414] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
415] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
416] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
417] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
418] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
419] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
420] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
421] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
422] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
423] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
424] 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.
425] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
426] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
427] 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
428] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
429] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
430] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
431] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
432] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
433] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
434] 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)
435] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
436] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
437] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
438] 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)
439] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
440] 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
441] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
442] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
443] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
444] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
445] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
446] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
447] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
448] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
449] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
450] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
451] 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)
452] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
453] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
454] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
455] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
456] 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
457] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
458] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
459] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
460] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
461] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
462] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
463] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
464] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
465] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
466] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
467] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
468] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
469] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
470] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
471] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
472] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
473] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
474] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
475] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
476] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
477] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
478] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
479] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
480] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
481] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
482] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
483] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
484] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
485] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
486] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
487] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
488] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
489] 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.
490] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
491] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
492] 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.
493] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
494] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
495] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
496] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
497] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
498] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
499] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
500] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
501] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
502] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
503] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
504] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
505] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
506] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
507] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
508] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
509] 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
510] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
511] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
512] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
513] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
514] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
515] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
516] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
517] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
518] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
519] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
520] 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.
521] 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
522] 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
523] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
524] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
525] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
526] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
527] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
528] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
529] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
530] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
531] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
532] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
533] 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)
534] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
535] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
536] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
537] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
538] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
539] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
540] 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)
541] 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.
542] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
543] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
544] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
545] 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)
546] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
547] 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.
548] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
549] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
550] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
551] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
552] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
553] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
554] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
555] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
556] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
557] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
558] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
559] 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
560] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
561] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
562] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
563] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
564] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
565] 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)
566] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
567] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
568] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
569] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
570] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
571] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
572] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
573] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
574] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
575] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
576] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
577] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
578] 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.
579] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
580] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
581] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
582] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
583] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
584] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
585] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
586] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
587] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
588] 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)
589] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
590] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
591] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
592] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
593] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
594] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
595] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
596] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
597] 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.
598] 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.
599] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
600] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)