Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
2] 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 .
3] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
4] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
5] 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.
6] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
7] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
8] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
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 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
11] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
12] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
13] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
14] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
15] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
16] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
17] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
18] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
19] 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
20] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
21] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
22] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
23] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
24] 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.
25] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
26] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
27] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
28] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
29] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
30] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
31] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
32] 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.
33] 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.
34] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
35] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
36] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
37] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
38] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
39] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
40] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
41] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
42] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
43] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
44] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
45] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
46] 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)
47] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
48] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
49] 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.
50] 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
51] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
52] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
53] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
54] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
55] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
56] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
57] 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.
58] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
59] 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
60] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
61] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
62] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
63] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
64] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
65] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
66] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
67] 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.
68] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
69] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
70] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
71] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
72] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
73] 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.
74] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
75] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
76] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
77] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
78] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
79] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
80] 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.”
81] 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
82] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
83] 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
84] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
85] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
86] 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.
87] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
88] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
89] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
90] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
91] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
92] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
93] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
94] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
95] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
96] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
97] 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)
98] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
99] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
100] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
101] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
102] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
103] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
104] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
105] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
106] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
107] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
108] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
109] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
110] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
111] 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.
112] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
113] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
114] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
115] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
116] 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.
117] 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.”
118] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
119] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
120] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
121] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
122] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
123] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
124] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
125] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
126] 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.
127] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
128] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
129] 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
130] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
131] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
132] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
133] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
134] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
135] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
136] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
137] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
138] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
139] 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
140] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
141] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
142] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
143] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
144] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
145] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
146] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
147] 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
148] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
149] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
150] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
151] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
152] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
153] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
154] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
155] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
156] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
157] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
158] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
159] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
160] 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
161] 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
162] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
163] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
164] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
165] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
166] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
167] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
168] 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
169] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
170] 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.
171] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
172] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
173] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
174] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
175] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
176] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
177] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
178] 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.
179] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
180] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
181] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
182] 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.
183] 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.
184] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
185] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
186] 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
187] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
188] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
189] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
190] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
191] 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.
192] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
193] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
194] 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
195] 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.
196] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
197] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
198] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
199] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
200] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
201] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
202] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
203] 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).
204] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
205] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
206] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
207] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
208] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
209] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
210] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
211] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
212] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
213] 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
214] 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.
215] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
216] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
217] 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.
218] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
219] 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.
220] 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
221] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
222] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
223] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
224] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
225] 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
226] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
227] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
228] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
229] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
230] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
231] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
232] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
233] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
234] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
235] 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.
236] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
237] 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.
238] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
239] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
240] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
241] 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.
242] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
243] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
244] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
245] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
246] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
247] 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.
248] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
249] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
250] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
251] 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.
252] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
253] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
254] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
255] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
256] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
257] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
258] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
259] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
260] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
261] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
262] 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)
263] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
264] 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
265] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
266] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
267] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
268] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
269] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
270] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
271] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
272] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
273] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
274] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
275] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
276] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
277] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
278] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
279] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
280] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
281] 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.
282] 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.
283] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
284] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
285] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
286] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
287] 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.
288] 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.
289] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
290] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
291] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
292] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
293] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
294] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
295] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
296] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
297] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
298] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
299] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
300] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
301] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
302] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
303] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
304] 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.
305] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
306] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
307] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
308] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
309] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
310] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
311] 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.
312] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
313] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
314] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
315] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
316] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
317] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
318] 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.
319] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
320] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
321] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
322] 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
323] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
324] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
325] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
326] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
327] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
328] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
329] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
330] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
331] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
332] 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
333] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
334] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
335] 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.
336] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
337] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
338] 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.
339] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
340] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
341] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
342] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
343] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
344] 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).
345] 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)
346] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
347] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
348] 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.
349] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
350] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
351] 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.
352] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
353] 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.
354] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
355] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
356] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
357] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
358] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
359] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
360] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
361] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
362] 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.
363] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
364] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
365] 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.
366] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
367] 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.
368] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
369] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
370] 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.
371] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
372] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
373] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
374] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
375] 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.
376] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
377] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
378] 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
379] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
380] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
381] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
382] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
383] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
384] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
385] 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)
386] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
387] 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
388] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
389] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
390] 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)
391] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
392] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
393] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
394] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
395] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
396] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
397] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
398] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
399] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
400] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
401] 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
402] 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)
403] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
404] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
405] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
406] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
407] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
408] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
409] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
410] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
411] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
412] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
413] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
414] 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)
415] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
416] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
417] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
418] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
419] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
420] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
421] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
422] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
423] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
424] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
425] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
426] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
427] 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.
428] 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
429] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
430] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
431] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
432] 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)
433] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
434] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
435] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
436] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
437] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
438] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
439] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
440] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
441] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
442] 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
443] 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
444] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
445] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
446] 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.
447] 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
448] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
449] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
450] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
451] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
452] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
453] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
454] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
455] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
456] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
457] 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.
458] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
459] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
460] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
461] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
462] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
463] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
464] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
465] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
466] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
467] 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
468] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
469] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
470] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
471] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
472] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
473] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
474] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
475] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
476] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
477] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
478] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
479] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
480] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
481] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
482] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
483] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
484] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
485] 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
486] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
487] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
488] 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
489] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
490] 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 .
491] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
492] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
493] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
494] 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.
495] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
496] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
497] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
498] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
499] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
500] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
501] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
502] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
503] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
504] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
505] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
506] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
507] 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
508] 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.
509] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
510] 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
511] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
512] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
513] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
514] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
515] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
516] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
517] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
518] 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.
519] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
520] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
521] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
522] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
523] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
524] 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.
525] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
526] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
527] 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)
528] 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
529] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
530] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
531] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
532] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
533] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
534] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
535] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
536] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
537] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
538] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
539] 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.
540] 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
541] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
542] 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)
543] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
544] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
545] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
546] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
547] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
548] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
549] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
550] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
551] 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)
552] 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
553] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
554] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
555] 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.
556] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
557] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
558] 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
559] 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.
560] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
561] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
562] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
563] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
564] 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
565] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
566] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
567] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
568] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
569] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
570] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
571] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
572] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
573] 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
574] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
575] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
576] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
577] 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
578] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
579] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
580] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
581] 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.
582] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
583] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
584] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
585] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
586] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
587] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
588] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
589] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
590] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
591] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
592] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
593] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
594] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
595] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
596] 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
597] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
598] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
599] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
600] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.