Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
2] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
3] 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
4] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
5] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
6] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
7] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
8] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
9] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
10] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
11] 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.
12] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
13] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
14] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
15] 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)
16] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
17] 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
18] 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
19] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
20] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
21] 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.
22] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
23] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
24] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
25] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
26] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
27] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
28] 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.
29] 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.
30] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
31] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
32] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
33] 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
34] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
35] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
36] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
37] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
38] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
39] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
40] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
41] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
42] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
43] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
44] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
45] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
46] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
47] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
48] 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
49] 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
50] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
51] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
52] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
53] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
54] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
55] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
56] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
57] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
58] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
59] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
60] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
61] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
62] 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.
63] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
64] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
65] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
66] 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)
67] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
68] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
69] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
70] 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
71] 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
72] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
73] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
74] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
75] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
76] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
77] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
78] 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.
79] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
80] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
81] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
82] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
83] 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
84] 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.
85] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
86] 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)
87] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
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] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
90] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
91] 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
92] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
93] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
94] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
95] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
96] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
97] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
98] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
99] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
100] 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
101] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
102] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
103] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
104] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
105] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
106] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
107] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
108] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
109] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
110] 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
111] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
112] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
113] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
114] 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).
115] 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
116] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
117] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
118] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
119] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
120] 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)
121] 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)
122] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
123] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
124] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
125] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
126] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
127] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
128] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
129] 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.
130] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
131] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
132] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
133] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
134] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
135] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
136] 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
137] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
138] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
139] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
140] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
141] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
142] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
143] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
144] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
145] 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
146] 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]
147] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
148] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
149] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
150] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
151] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
152] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
153] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
154] 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.
155] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
156] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
157] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
158] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
159] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
160] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
161] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
162] 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.
163] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
164] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
165] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
166] 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
167] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
168] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
169] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
170] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
171] 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
172] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
173] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
174] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
175] 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)
176] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
177] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
178] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
179] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
180] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
181] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
182] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
183] 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)
184] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
185] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
186] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
187] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
188] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
189] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
190] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
191] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
192] 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.
193] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
194] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
195] 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.
196] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
197] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
198] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
199] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
200] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
201] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
202] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
203] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
204] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
205] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
206] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
207] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
208] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
209] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
210] 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.
211] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
212] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
213] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
214] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
215] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
216] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
217] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
218] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
219] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
220] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
221] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
222] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
223] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
224] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
225] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
226] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
227] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
228] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
229] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
230] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
231] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
232] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
233] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
234] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
235] 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.
236] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
237] 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.
238] 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.
239] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
240] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
241] 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).
242] 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
243] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
244] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
245] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
246] 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
247] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
248] 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 .
249] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
250] 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.
251] 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
252] 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
253] 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.
254] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
255] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
256] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
257] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
258] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
259] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
260] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
261] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
262] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
263] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
264] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
265] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
266] 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
267] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
268] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
269] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
270] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
271] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
272] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
273] 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.
274] 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
275] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
276] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
277] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
278] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
279] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
280] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
281] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
282] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
283] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
284] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
285] 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.
286] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
287] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
288] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
289] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
290] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
291] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
292] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
293] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
294] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
295] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
296] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
297] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
298] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
299] 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)
300] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
301] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
302] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
303] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
304] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
305] 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.
306] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
307] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
308] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
309] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
310] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
311] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
312] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
313] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
314] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
315] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
316] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
317] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
318] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
319] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
320] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
321] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
322] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
323] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
324] 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 .
325] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
326] 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.
327] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
328] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
329] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
330] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
331] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
332] 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)
333] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
334] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
335] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
336] 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.
337] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
338] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
339] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
340] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
341] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
342] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
343] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
344] 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
345] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
346] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
347] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
348] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
349] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
350] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
351] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
352] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
353] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
354] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
355] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
356] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
357] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
358] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
359] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
360] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
361] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
362] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
363] 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
364] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
365] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
366] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
367] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
368] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
369] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
370] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
371] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
372] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
373] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
374] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
375] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
376] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
377] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
378] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
379] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
380] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
381] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
382] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
383] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
384] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
385] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
386] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
387] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
388] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
389] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
390] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
391] 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
392] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
393] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
394] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
395] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
396] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
397] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
398] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
399] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
400] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
401] 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.
402] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
403] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
404] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
405] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
406] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
407] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
408] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
409] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
410] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
411] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
412] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
413] 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.
414] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
415] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
416] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
417] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
418] 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.
419] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
420] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
421] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
422] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
423] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
424] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
425] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
426] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
427] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
428] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
429] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
430] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
431] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
432] 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
433] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
434] 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)
435] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
436] 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.
437] 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.
438] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
439] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
440] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
441] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
442] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
443] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
444] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
445] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
446] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
447] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
448] 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.”
449] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
450] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
451] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
452] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
453] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
454] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
455] 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.
456] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
457] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
458] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
459] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
460] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
461] 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.
462] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
463] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
464] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
465] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
466] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
467] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
468] 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.
469] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
470] 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
471] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
472] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
473] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
474] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
475] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
476] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
477] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
478] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
479] 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)
480] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
481] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
482] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
483] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
484] Commonsense is not so common.
485] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
486] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
487] 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
488] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
489] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
490] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
491] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
492] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
493] 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
494] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
495] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
496] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
497] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
498] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
499] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
500] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
501] 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.
502] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
503] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
504] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
505] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
506] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
507] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
508] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
509] 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
510] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
511] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
512] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
513] 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)
514] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
515] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
516] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
517] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
518] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
519] 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
520] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
521] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
522] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
523] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
524] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
525] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
526] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
527] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
528] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
529] 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)
530] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
531] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
532] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
533] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
534] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
535] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
536] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
537] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
538] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
539] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
540] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
541] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
542] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
543] 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)
544] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
545] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
546] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
547] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
548] 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
549] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
550] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
551] 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)
552] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
553] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
554] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
555] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
556] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
557] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
558] 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
559] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
560] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
561] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
562] 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.
563] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
564] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
565] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
566] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
567] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
568] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
569] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
570] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
571] 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)
572] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
573] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
574] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
575] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
576] 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.
577] 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
578] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
579] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
581] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
582] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
583] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
584] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
585] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
586] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
587] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
588] 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
589] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
590] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
591] 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
592] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
593] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
594] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
595] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
596] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
597] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
598] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
599] 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.
600] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.