Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
2] 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
3] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
4] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
5] 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
6] 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
7] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
8] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
9] 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
10] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
11] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
12] 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.
13] 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.
14] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
15] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
16] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
17] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
18] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
19] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
20] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
21] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
22] 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.
23] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
24] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
25] 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
26] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
27] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
28] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
29] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
30] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
31] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
32] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
33] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
34] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
35] 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.
36] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
37] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
38] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
39] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
41] 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)
42] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
43] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
44] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
45] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
46] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
47] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
48] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
49] 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
50] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
51] 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.”
52] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
53] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
54] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
55] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
56] 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)
57] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
58] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
59] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
60] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
61] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
62] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
63] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
64] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
65] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
66] 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)
67] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
68] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
69] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
70] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
71] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
72] 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.
73] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
74] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
75] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
76] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
77] 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.
78] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
79] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
80] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
81] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
82] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
83] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
84] 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.
85] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
86] 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)
87] 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
88] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
89] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
90] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
91] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
92] 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
93] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
94] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
95] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
96] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
97] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
98] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
99] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
100] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
101] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
102] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
103] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
104] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
105] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
106] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
107] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
108] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
109] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
110] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
111] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
112] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
113] 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)
114] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
115] 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.
116] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
117] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
118] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
119] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
120] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
121] 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
122] 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
123] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
124] 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
125] 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.
126] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
127] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
128] 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.
129] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
130] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
131] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
132] 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.
133] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
134] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
135] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
136] 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.
137] 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.
138] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
139] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
140] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
141] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
142] 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.
143] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
144] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
145] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
146] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
147] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
148] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
149] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
150] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
151] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
152] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
153] 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
154] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
155] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
156] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
157] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
158] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
159] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
160] 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.”
161] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
162] 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.
163] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
164] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
165] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
166] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
167] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
168] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
169] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
170] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
171] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
172] 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.
173] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
174] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
175] 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 .
176] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
177] 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.
178] 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
179] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
180] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
181] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
182] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
183] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
184] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
185] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
186] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
187] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
188] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
189] 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.
190] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
191] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
192] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
193] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
194] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
195] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
196] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
197] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
198] 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
199] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
200] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
201] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
202] 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.
203] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
204] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
205] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
206] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
207] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
208] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
209] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
210] 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)
211] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
212] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
213] 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.
214] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
215] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
216] 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.
217] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
218] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
219] 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
220] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
221] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
223] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
224] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
225] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
226] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
227] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
228] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
229] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
230] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
231] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
232] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
233] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
234] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
235] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
236] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
237] 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.
238] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
239] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
240] 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.
241] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
242] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
243] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
244] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
245] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
246] 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
247] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
248] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
249] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
250] 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
251] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
252] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
253] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
254] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
255] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
256] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
257] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
258] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
259] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
260] 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.
261] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
262] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
263] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
264] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
265] 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
266] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
267] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
268] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
269] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
270] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
271] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
272] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
273] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
274] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
275] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
276] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
277] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
278] 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)
279] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
280] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
281] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
282] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
283] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
284] 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.
285] 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)
286] 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).
287] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
288] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
289] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
290] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
291] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
292] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
293] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
294] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
295] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
296] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
297] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
298] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
299] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
300] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
301] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
302] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
303] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
304] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
305] 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
306] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
307] 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.
308] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
309] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
310] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
311] 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.
312] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
313] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
314] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
315] 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.
316] 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.
317] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
318] 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)
319] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
320] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
321] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
322] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
323] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
324] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
325] 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.
326] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
327] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
328] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
329] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
330] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
331] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
332] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
333] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
334] 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
335] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
336] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
337] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
338] 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
339] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
340] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
341] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
342] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
343] 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
344] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
345] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
346] 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.
347] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
348] 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
349] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
350] 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)
351] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
352] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
353] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
354] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
355] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
356] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
357] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
358] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
359] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
360] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
361] 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
362] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
363] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
364] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
365] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
366] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
367] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
368] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
369] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
370] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
371] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
372] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
373] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
374] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
375] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
376] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
377] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
378] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
379] 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.
380] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
381] 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.
382] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
383] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
384] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
385] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
386] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
387] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
388] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
389] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
390] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
391] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
392] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
393] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
394] 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
395] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
396] 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)
397] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
398] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
399] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
400] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
401] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
402] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
403] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
404] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
405] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
406] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
407] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
408] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
409] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
410] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
411] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
412] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
413] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
414] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
415] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
416] 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.
417] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
418] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
419] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
420] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
421] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
422] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
423] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
424] 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
425] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
426] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
427] 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.
428] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
429] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
430] 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
431] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
432] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
433] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
434] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
435] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
436] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
437] 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)
438] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
439] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
440] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
441] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
442] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
443] 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 .
444] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
445] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
446] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
447] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
448] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
449] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
450] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
451] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
452] 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
453] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
454] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
455] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
456] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
457] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
458] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
459] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
460] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
461] 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.
462] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
463] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
464] 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)
465] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
466] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
467] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
468] 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
469] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
470] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
471] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
472] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
473] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
474] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
475] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
476] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
477] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
478] 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]
479] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
480] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
481] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
482] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
483] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
484] 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.
485] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
486] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
487] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
488] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
489] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
490] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
491] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
492] 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
493] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
494] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
495] 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)
496] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
497] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
498] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
499] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
500] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
501] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
502] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
503] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
504] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
505] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
506] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
507] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
508] 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
509] 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
510] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
511] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
512] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
513] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
514] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
515] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
516] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
517] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
518] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
519] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
520] 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
521] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
522] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
523] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
524] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
525] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
526] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
527] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
528] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
529] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
530] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
531] 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
532] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
533] 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)
534] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
535] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
536] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
537] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
538] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
539] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
540] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
541] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
542] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
543] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
544] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
545] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
546] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
547] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
548] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
549] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
550] 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).
551] 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
552] 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)
553] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
554] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
555] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
556] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
557] 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.
558] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
559] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
560] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
561] 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
562] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
563] 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.
564] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
565] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
566] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
567] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
568] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
569] 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
570] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
571] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
572] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
573] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
574] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
575] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
576] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
577] 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.
578] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
579] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
580] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
581] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
582] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
583] 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.
584] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
585] 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.
586] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
587] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
588] 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
589] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
590] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
591] 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.
592] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
593] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
594] 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
595] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
596] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
597] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
598] 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.
599] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
600] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.