Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
2] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
3] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
4] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
5] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
6] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
7] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
8] 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
9] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
10] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
11] 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.
12] 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.
13] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
14] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
15] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
16] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
17] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
18] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
19] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
20] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
21] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
22] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
23] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
24] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
25] 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
26] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
27] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
28] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
29] 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)
30] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
31] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
32] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
33] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
34] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
35] 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
36] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
37] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
38] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
39] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
40] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
41] 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
42] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
43] 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
44] Commonsense is not so common.
45] 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
46] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
47] 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.”
48] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
49] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
50] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
51] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
52] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
53] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
54] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
55] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
56] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
57] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
58] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
59] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
60] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
61] 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
62] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
63] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
64] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
65] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
66] 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.
67] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
68] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
69] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
70] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
71] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
72] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
73] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
74] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
75] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
76] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
77] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
78] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
79] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
80] 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.
81] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
82] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
83] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
84] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
85] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
86] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
87] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
88] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
89] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
90] 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.
91] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
92] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
93] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
94] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
95] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
96] 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)
97] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
99] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
100] 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
101] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
102] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
103] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
104] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
105] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
106] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
107] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
108] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
109] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
111] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
112] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
113] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
114] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
115] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
116] 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.
117] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
118] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
119] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
120] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
121] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
122] 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)
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] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
125] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
126] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
127] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
128] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
129] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
130] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
131] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
132] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
133] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
134] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
135] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
136] 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
137] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
138] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
139] 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.
140] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
141] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
142] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
143] 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.
144] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
145] 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.
146] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
147] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
148] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
149] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
150] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
151] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
152] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
153] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
154] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
155] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
156] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
157] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
158] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
159] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
160] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
161] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
162] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
163] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
164] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
165] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
166] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
167] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
168] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
169] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
170] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
171] 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
172] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
173] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
174] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
175] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
176] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
177] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
178] 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).
179] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
180] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
181] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
182] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
183] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
184] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
185] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
186] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
187] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
188] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
189] 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)
190] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
191] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
192] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
193] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
194] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
195] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
196] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
197] 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)
198] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
199] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
200] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
201] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
202] 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)
203] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
204] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
205] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
206] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
207] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
208] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
209] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
210] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
211] 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
212] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
213] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
214] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
215] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
216] 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
217] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
218] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
219] 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.
220] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
221] 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.
222] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
223] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
225] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
226] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
227] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
228] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
229] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
230] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
231] 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
232] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
233] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
234] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
235] 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
236] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
237] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
238] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
239] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
240] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
241] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
242] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
243] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
244] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
245] 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.
246] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
247] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
248] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
249] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
250] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
251] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
252] 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
253] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
254] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
255] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
256] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
257] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
258] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
259] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
260] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
261] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
262] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
263] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
264] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
265] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
266] 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.
267] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
268] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
269] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
270] 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)
271] 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)
272] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
273] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
274] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
275] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
276] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
277] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
278] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
279] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
280] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
281] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
282] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
283] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
284] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
285] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
286] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
287] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
288] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
289] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
290] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
291] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
292] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
293] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
294] 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)
295] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
296] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
297] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
298] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
299] 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
300] 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.
301] 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)
302] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
303] 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.
304] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
305] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
306] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
307] 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
308] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
309] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
310] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
311] 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
312] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
313] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
314] 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
315] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
316] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
317] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
318] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
319] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
320] 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
321] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
322] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
323] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
324] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
325] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
326] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
327] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
328] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
329] 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
330] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
331] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
332] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
333] 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
334] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
335] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
336] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
337] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
338] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
339] 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.
340] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
341] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
342] 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.
343] 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.
344] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
345] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
346] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
347] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
348] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
349] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
350] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
351] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
352] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
353] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
354] 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).
355] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
356] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
357] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
358] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
359] 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.
360] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
361] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
362] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
363] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
364] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
365] 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.
366] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
367] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
368] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
369] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
370] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
371] 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.
372] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
373] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
374] 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
375] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
376] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
377] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
378] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
379] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
380] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
381] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
382] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
383] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
384] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
385] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
386] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
387] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
388] 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.
389] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
390] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
391] 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
392] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
393] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
394] 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
395] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
396] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
397] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
398] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
400] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
401] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
402] 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.
403] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
404] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
405] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
406] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
407] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
408] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
409] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
410] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
411] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
412] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
413] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
414] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
415] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
416] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
417] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
418] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
419] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
420] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
421] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
422] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
423] 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.
424] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
425] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
426] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
427] 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.
428] 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
429] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
430] 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.
431] 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)
432] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
433] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
434] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
435] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
436] 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)
437] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
438] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
439] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
440] 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 .
441] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
442] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
443] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
444] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
445] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
446] 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
447] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
448] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
449] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
450] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
451] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
452] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
453] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
454] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
455] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
456] 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)
457] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
458] 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
459] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
460] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
461] 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
462] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
463] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
464] 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.
465] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
466] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
467] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
468] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
469] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
470] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
471] 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)
472] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
473] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
474] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
475] 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
476] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
477] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
478] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
479] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
480] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
481] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
482] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
483] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
484] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
485] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
486] 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)
487] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
488] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
489] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
490] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
491] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
492] 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.
493] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
494] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
495] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
496] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
497] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
498] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
499] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
500] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
501] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
502] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
503] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
504] 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
505] 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).
506] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
507] 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
508] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
509] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
510] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
511] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
512] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
513] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
514] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
515] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
516] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
517] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
518] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
519] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
520] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
521] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
522] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
523] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
524] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
525] 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)
526] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
527] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
528] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
529] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
530] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
531] 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
532] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
533] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
534] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
535] 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.
536] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
537] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
538] 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).
539] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
540] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
541] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
542] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
543] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
545] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
546] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
547] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
548] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
549] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
550] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
551] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
552] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
553] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
554] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
555] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
556] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
557] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
558] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
559] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
560] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
561] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
562] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
563] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
564] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
565] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
566] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
567] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
568] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
569] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
570] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
571] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
572] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
573] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
574] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
575] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
576] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
577] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
578] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
579] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
580] 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.
581] 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.
582] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
583] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
584] 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.
585] 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.
586] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
587] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
588] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
589] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
590] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
591] 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
592] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
593] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
594] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
595] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
596] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
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] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
599] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
600] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)