Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
3] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
4] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
5] 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.
6] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
7] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
8] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
9] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
10] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
11] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
12] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
13] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
14] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
15] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
16] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
17] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
18] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
19] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
20] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
21] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
22] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
23] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
24] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
25] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
26] 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
27] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
28] 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
29] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
30] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
31] 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)
32] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
33] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
34] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
35] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
36] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
37] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
38] 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.
39] 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.
40] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
41] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
42] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
43] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
44] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
45] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
46] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
47] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
48] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
49] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
50] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
51] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
52] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
53] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
54] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
55] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
56] 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
57] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
58] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
59] 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
60] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
61] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
62] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
63] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
64] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
65] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
66] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
67] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
68] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
69] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
70] 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.
71] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
72] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
73] 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)
74] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
75] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
76] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
77] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
78] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
79] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
80] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
81] 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.
82] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
83] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
84] 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.
85] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
86] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
87] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
88] 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.
89] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
90] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
91] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
92] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
93] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
94] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
95] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
96] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
97] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
98] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
99] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
100] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
101] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
102] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
103] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
104] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
105] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
106] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
107] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
108] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
109] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
110] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
111] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
112] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
113] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
114] 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.
115] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
116] 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
117] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
118] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
119] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
120] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
121] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
122] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
123] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
124] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
125] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
126] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
127] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
128] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
129] 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.”
130] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
131] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
132] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
134] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
135] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
136] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
137] 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)
138] 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.
139] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
140] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
141] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
142] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
143] 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)
144] 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
145] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
146] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
147] 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
148] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
149] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
150] 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)
151] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
152] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
153] 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
154] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
155] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
156] 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)
157] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
158] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
159] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
160] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
161] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
162] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
163] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
164] 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.
165] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
166] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
167] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
168] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
169] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
170] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
171] 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.
172] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
173] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
174] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
175] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
176] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
177] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
178] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
179] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
180] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
181] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
182] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
183] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
184] 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
185] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
186] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
187] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
188] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
189] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
190] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
191] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
192] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
193] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
194] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
195] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
196] 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
197] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
198] 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)
199] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
200] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
201] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
202] 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)
203] 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.
204] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
205] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
206] 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.
207] 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
208] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
209] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
210] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
211] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
212] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
213] 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
214] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
215] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
216] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
217] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
218] 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
219] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
220] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
221] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
222] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
223] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
224] 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.
225] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
226] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
227] 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
228] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
229] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
230] 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.
231] 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.
232] 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
233] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
234] 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
235] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
236] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
237] 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]
238] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
239] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
240] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
241] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
242] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
243] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
244] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
245] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
246] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
247] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
248] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
249] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
250] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
251] 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
252] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
253] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
254] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
255] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
256] 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
257] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
258] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
259] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
260] 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
261] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
262] 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.
263] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
264] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
266] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
267] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
268] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
269] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
270] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
271] 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
272] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
273] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
274] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
275] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
276] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
277] 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.
278] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
279] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
280] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
281] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
282] 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.”
283] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
284] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
285] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
286] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
287] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
288] 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
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] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
291] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
292] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
293] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
294] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
295] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
296] 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
297] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
298] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
299] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
300] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
301] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
302] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
303] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
304] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
305] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
306] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
307] 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)
308] 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
309] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
310] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
311] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
312] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
313] 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
314] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
315] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
316] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
317] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
318] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
319] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
320] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
321] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
322] 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)
323] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
324] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
325] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
326] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
328] 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.
329] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
330] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
331] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
332] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
333] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
334] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
335] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
336] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
337] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
338] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
339] 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)
340] 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
341] 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)
342] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
343] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
344] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
345] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
346] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
347] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
348] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
349] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
350] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
351] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
352] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
353] 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)
354] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
355] 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
356] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
357] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
358] 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
359] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
360] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
361] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
362] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
363] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
364] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
365] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
366] 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.
367] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
368] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
369] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
370] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
371] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
372] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
374] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
375] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
376] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
377] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
378] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
379] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
380] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
381] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
382] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
383] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
384] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
385] 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.
386] 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)
387] 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)
388] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
389] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
390] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
391] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
392] 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
393] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
394] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
395] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
396] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
397] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
398] 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.
399] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
400] 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.
401] 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
402] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
403] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
404] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
405] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
406] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
407] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
408] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
409] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
410] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
411] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
412] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
413] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
414] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
415] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
416] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
417] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
418] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
419] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
420] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
421] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
422] 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
423] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
424] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
425] 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
426] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
427] 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
428] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
429] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
430] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
431] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
432] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
433] 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).
434] 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]
435] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
436] 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.
437] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
438] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
439] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
440] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
441] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
442] 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)
443] 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
444] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
445] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
446] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
447] 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
448] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
449] 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.
450] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
451] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
452] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
453] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
454] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
455] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
456] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
457] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
458] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
459] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
460] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
461] 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)
462] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
463] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
464] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
465] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
466] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
467] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
468] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
469] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
470] 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
471] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
472] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
473] 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
474] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
475] 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.
476] 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
477] 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)
478] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
479] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
480] 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
481] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
482] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
483] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
484] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
485] 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).
486] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
487] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
488] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
489] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
490] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
491] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
492] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
493] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
494] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
495] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
496] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
497] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
498] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
499] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
500] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
501] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
502] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
503] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
504] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
505] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
506] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
507] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
508] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
509] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
510] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
511] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
512] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
513] 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.
514] 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.
515] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
516] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
517] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
518] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
519] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
520] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
521] 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.
522] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
523] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
524] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
525] 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
526] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
527] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
528] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
529] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
530] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
531] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
532] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
533] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
534] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
535] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
536] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
537] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
538] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
539] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
540] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
541] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
542] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
543] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
544] 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
545] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
546] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
547] 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.
548] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
549] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
550] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
551] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
552] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
553] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
554] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
555] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
556] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
557] 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
558] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
559] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
560] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
561] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
562] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
563] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
564] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
565] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
566] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
567] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
568] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
569] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
570] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
571] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
572] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
573] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
574] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
575] 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.
576] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
577] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
578] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
579] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
580] 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.
581] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
582] 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.
583] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
584] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
585] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
586] 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.
587] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
588] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
589] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
590] 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)
591] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
592] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
593] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
594] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
595] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
596] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
597] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
598] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
599] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
600] 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)