Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
2] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
3] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
4] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
5] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
6] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
7] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
8] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
9] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
10] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
11] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
12] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
13] 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.
14] 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
15] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
16] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
17] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
18] 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
19] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
20] 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
21] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
22] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
23] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
24] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
25] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
26] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
27] 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.
28] 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.
29] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
30] 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
31] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
32] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
33] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
34] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
35] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
36] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
37] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
38] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
39] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
40] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
41] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
42] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
43] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
44] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
45] 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)
46] 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
47] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
50] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
51] 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.
52] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
53] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
54] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
55] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
56] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
57] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
58] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
59] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
60] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
61] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
62] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
63] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
64] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
65] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
66] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
67] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
68] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
69] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
70] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
71] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
72] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
73] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
74] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
75] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
76] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
77] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
78] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
79] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
80] 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.
81] 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.
82] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
83] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
84] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
85] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
86] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
87] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
88] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
89] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
90] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
91] 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.
92] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
93] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
94] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
95] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
96] 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
97] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
98] 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)
99] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
100] 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
101] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
102] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
103] 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
104] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
105] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
106] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
107] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
108] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
109] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
110] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
111] 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
112] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
113] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
114] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
115] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
116] 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.
117] 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
118] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
120] 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.
121] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
122] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
123] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
124] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
125] 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
126] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
127] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
128] 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
129] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
130] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
131] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
132] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
133] 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)
134] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
135] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
136] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
137] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
138] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
139] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
140] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
141] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
142] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
143] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
144] 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
145] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
146] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
147] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
148] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
149] 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.
150] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
151] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
152] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
153] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
154] 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
155] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
156] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
157] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
158] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
159] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
160] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
161] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
162] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
163] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
164] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
165] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
166] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
167] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
168] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
169] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
170] 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
171] 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.
172] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
173] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
174] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
175] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
176] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
177] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
178] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
179] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
180] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
181] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
182] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
183] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
184] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
185] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
186] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
187] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
188] 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.
189] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
190] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
191] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
192] 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
193] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
194] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
195] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
196] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
197] 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)
198] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
199] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
200] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
201] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
202] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
203] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
204] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
205] 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.
206] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
207] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
208] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
209] 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.
210] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
211] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
212] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
213] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
214] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
215] 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
216] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
217] 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
218] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
219] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
220] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
221] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
222] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
223] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
224] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
225] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
226] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
227] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
228] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
229] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
230] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
231] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
232] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
233] 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
234] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
235] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
236] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
237] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
238] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
239] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
240] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
241] 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
242] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
243] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
244] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
245] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
246] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
247] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
248] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
249] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
250] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
251] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
252] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
253] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
254] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
255] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
256] 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)
257] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
258] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
259] 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)
260] 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
261] 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.
262] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
263] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
264] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
265] 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.
266] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
267] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
268] 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.
269] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
270] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
271] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
272] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
273] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
274] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
275] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
276] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
277] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
278] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
279] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
280] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
281] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
282] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
283] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
284] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
285] 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
286] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
287] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
288] 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
289] 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.
290] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
291] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
292] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
293] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
294] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
295] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
296] 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.
297] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
298] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
299] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
300] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
301] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
302] 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 .
303] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
304] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
305] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
306] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
307] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
308] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
309] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
310] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
311] 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.
312] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
313] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
314] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
315] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
316] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
317] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
318] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
319] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
320] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
321] 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
322] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
323] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
324] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
325] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
326] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
327] 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).
328] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
329] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
330] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
331] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
332] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
333] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
334] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
335] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
336] 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)
337] 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.
338] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
339] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
340] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
341] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
342] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
343] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
344] 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
345] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
346] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
347] 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
348] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
349] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
350] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
351] 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)
352] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
353] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
354] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
355] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
356] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
357] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
358] 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)
359] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
360] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
361] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
362] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
363] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
364] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
365] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
366] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
367] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
368] 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.
369] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
370] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
371] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
372] 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.
373] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
374] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
375] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
376] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
377] 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.
378] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
379] 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.
380] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
381] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
382] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
383] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
384] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
385] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
386] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
387] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
388] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
389] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
390] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
391] 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
392] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
393] 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 .
394] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
395] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
396] 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
397] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
398] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
399] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
400] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
401] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
402] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
403] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
404] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
405] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
406] 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
407] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
408] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
409] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
410] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
411] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
412] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
413] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
414] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
415] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
416] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
417] 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.
418] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
419] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
420] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
421] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
422] 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
423] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
424] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
425] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
426] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
427] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
428] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
429] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
430] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
431] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
432] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
433] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
434] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
435] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
436] 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.
437] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
438] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
439] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
440] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
441] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
442] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
443] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
444] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
445] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
446] 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.
447] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
448] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
449] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
450] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
451] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
452] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
453] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
454] 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)
455] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
456] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
457] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
458] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
459] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
460] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
461] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
462] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
463] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
464] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
465] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
466] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
467] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
468] 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.
469] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
470] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
471] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
472] 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
473] 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.
474] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
475] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
476] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
477] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
478] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
479] 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.
480] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
481] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
482] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
483] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
484] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
485] 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)
486] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
487] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
488] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
489] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
490] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
491] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
492] 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.
493] 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
494] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
495] 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.
496] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
497] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
498] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
499] 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
500] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
501] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
502] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
503] 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.
504] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
505] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
506] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
507] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
508] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
509] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
510] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
511] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
512] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
513] 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
514] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
515] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
516] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
517] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
518] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
519] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
520] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
521] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
522] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
523] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
524] 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
525] 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.
526] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
527] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
528] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
529] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
530] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
531] 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
532] 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.
533] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
534] 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
535] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
536] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
537] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
538] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
539] 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.
540] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
541] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
542] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
543] 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)
544] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
545] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
546] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
547] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
548] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
549] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
550] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
551] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
552] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
553] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
554] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
555] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
556] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
557] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
558] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
559] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
560] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
561] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
562] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
563] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
564] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
565] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
566] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
567] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
568] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
569] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
570] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
571] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
572] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
573] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
574] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
575] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
576] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
577] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
578] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
579] 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.
580] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
581] 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.
582] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
583] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
584] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
585] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
586] 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.
587] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
588] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
589] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
590] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
591] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
592] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
593] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
594] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
595] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] 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.
597] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
598] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
599] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
600] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)