Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
2] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
3] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
4] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
5] 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.
6] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
7] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
8] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
9] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
10] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
11] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
12] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
13] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
14] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
15] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
16] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
17] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
18] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
19] 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.
20] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
22] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
23] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
24] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
25] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
26] 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.
27] 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.
28] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
29] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
30] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
31] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
32] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
33] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
34] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
35] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
36] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
37] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
38] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
39] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
40] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
41] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
42] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
43] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
44] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
45] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
46] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
47] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
48] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
49] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
50] 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.
51] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
52] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
53] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
54] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
55] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
56] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
57] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
58] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
59] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
60] 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.
61] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
62] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
63] 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.
64] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
65] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
66] 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)
67] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
68] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
69] 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
70] 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.
71] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
72] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
73] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
74] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
75] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
76] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
77] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
78] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
79] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
80] 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
81] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
82] 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.
83] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
84] 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.
85] 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.
86] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
87] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
88] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
89] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
90] 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.
91] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
92] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
93] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
94] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
95] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
96] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
97] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
98] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
99] 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)
100] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
101] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
102] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
103] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
104] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
105] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
106] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
107] 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).
108] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
109] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
110] 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.
111] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
112] 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.
113] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
114] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
115] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
116] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
117] 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
118] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
119] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
120] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
121] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
122] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
123] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
124] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
125] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
126] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
127] 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)
128] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
129] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
130] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
131] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
132] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
133] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
134] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
135] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
136] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
137] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
138] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
139] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
140] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
141] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
142] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
143] 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
144] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
145] 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.
146] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
147] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
148] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
149] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
150] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
151] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
152] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
153] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
154] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
155] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
156] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
157] 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)
158] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
159] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
160] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
161] 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
162] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
163] 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.
164] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
165] 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.
166] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
167] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
168] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
169] 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)
170] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
171] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
172] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
173] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
174] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
175] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
176] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
177] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
178] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
179] Commonsense is not so common.
180] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
181] 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
182] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
183] 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.
184] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
185] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
186] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
187] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
188] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
189] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
190] 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.
191] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
192] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
193] 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)
194] 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 .
195] 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
196] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
197] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
198] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
199] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
200] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
201] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
202] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
203] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
204] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
205] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
206] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
207] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
208] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
209] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
210] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
211] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
212] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
213] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
214] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
215] 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
216] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
217] 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]
218] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
219] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
220] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
221] 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.
222] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
223] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
224] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
225] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
226] 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.
227] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
228] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
229] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
230] 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.
231] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
232] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
233] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
234] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
235] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
236] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
237] 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.
238] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
239] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
240] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
241] 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.
242] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
243] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
244] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
245] 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.
246] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
247] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
249] 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
250] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
251] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
252] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
253] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
254] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
255] 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
256] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
257] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
258] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
259] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
260] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
261] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
262] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
263] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
264] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
265] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
266] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
267] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
268] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
269] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
270] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
271] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
272] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
273] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
274] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
275] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
276] 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)
277] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
278] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
279] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
280] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
281] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
282] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
283] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
284] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
285] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
286] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
287] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
288] 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
289] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
290] 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.
291] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
292] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
293] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
294] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
295] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
296] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
297] 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)
298] 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
299] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
300] 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
301] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
302] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
303] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
304] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
305] 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.
306] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
307] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
308] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
309] 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
310] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
311] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
312] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
313] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
314] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
315] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
316] 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
317] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
318] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
319] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
320] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
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] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
323] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
324] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
325] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
326] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
327] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
328] 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)
329] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
330] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
331] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
332] 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
333] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
334] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
335] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
336] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
337] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
338] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
339] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
340] 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.
341] 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
342] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
343] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
344] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
345] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
346] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
347] 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)
348] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
349] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
350] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
351] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
352] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
353] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
354] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
355] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
356] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
357] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
358] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
359] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
360] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
361] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
362] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
363] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
364] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
365] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
366] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
367] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
368] 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]
369] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
370] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] 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.
372] 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.
373] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
374] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
375] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
376] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
377] 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.”
378] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
379] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
380] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
381] 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.
382] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
383] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
384] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
385] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
386] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
387] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
388] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
389] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
390] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
391] 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.
392] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
393] 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.
394] 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 .
395] 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.
396] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
397] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
398] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
399] 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
400] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
401] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
402] 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.
403] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
404] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
405] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
406] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
407] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
408] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
409] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
410] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
411] 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.
412] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
413] 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
414] 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
415] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
416] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
417] 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
418] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
419] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
420] 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.
421] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
422] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
423] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
424] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
425] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
426] 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.
427] 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.
428] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
429] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
430] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
431] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
432] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
433] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
434] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
435] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
436] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
437] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
438] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
439] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
440] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
441] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
442] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
443] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
444] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
445] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
446] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
447] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
448] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
449] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
450] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
451] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
452] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
453] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
454] 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.
455] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
456] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
457] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
458] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
459] 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.
460] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
461] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
462] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
463] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
464] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
465] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
466] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
467] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
468] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
469] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
470] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
471] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
472] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
473] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
474] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
475] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
476] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
477] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
478] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
479] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
480] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
481] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
482] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
483] 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.
484] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
485] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
486] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
487] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
488] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
489] 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
490] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
491] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
492] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
493] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
494] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
495] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
496] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
497] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
498] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
499] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
500] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
501] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
502] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
503] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
504] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
505] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
506] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
507] 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.
508] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
509] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
510] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
512] 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.
513] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
514] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
515] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
516] 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.
517] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
518] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
519] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
520] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
521] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
522] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
523] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
524] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
525] 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.
526] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
527] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
528] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
529] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
530] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
531] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
532] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
533] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
534] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
535] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
536] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
537] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
538] 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.
539] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
540] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
541] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
542] 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
543] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
544] 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.
545] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
546] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
547] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
548] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
549] 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
550] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
551] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
552] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
553] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
554] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
555] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
556] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
557] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
558] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
559] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
560] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
561] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
562] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
563] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
564] 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.
565] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
566] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
567] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
568] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
569] 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.
570] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
571] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
572] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
573] 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.
574] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
575] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
576] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
577] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
578] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
579] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
580] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
581] 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
582] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
583] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
584] 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
585] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
586] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
587] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
588] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
589] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
590] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
591] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
592] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
593] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
594] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
595] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
596] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
597] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
598] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
599] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
600] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.