Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
2] 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
3] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
4] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
5] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
6] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
7] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
8] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
9] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
10] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
11] 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
12] 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
13] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
14] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
15] 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
16] 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
17] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
18] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
19] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
20] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
21] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
22] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
23] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
24] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
25] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
26] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
27] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
28] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
29] 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.
30] 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
31] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
32] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
33] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
34] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
35] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
36] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
37] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
38] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
39] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
40] 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
41] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
42] 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
43] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
44] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
45] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
46] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
47] 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
48] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
49] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
50] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
51] 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.
52] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
53] 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.
54] 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
55] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
56] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
57] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
58] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
59] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
60] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
61] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
62] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
63] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
64] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
65] 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.
66] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
67] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
68] 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)
69] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
70] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
71] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
72] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
73] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
74] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
75] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
76] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
77] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
78] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
79] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
80] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
81] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
82] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
83] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
84] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
85] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
86] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
87] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
88] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
89] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
90] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
91] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
92] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
93] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
94] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
95] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
96] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
97] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
98] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
99] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
100] 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.
101] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
102] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
103] 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.
104] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
105] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
106] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
107] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
108] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
109] 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
110] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
111] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
112] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
113] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
114] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
115] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
116] 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)
117] 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
118] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
119] 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.
120] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
121] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
122] 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.
123] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
124] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
125] 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).
126] 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).
127] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
128] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
129] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
130] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
131] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
132] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
133] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
134] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
135] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
136] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
137] 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
138] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
139] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
140] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
141] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
142] 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.
143] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
144] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
145] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
146] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
147] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
148] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
149] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
150] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
151] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
152] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
153] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
154] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
155] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
156] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
157] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
158] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
159] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
160] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
161] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
162] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
163] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
164] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
165] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
166] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
167] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
168] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
169] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
170] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
171] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
172] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
173] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
174] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
175] 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)
176] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
177] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
178] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
179] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
180] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
181] 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
182] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
183] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
184] 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
185] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
186] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
187] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
188] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
189] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
190] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
191] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
192] 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.
193] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
194] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
195] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
196] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
197] 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)
198] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
199] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
200] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
201] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
202] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
203] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
204] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
205] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
206] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
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] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
209] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
210] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
211] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
212] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
213] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
214] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
215] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
216] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
217] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
218] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
219] 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.
220] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
221] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
222] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
223] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
224] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
225] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
226] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
227] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
228] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
229] 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
230] 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)
231] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
232] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
233] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
234] 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.
235] 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)
236] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
237] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
238] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
239] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
240] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
241] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
242] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
243] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
244] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
245] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
246] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
247] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
248] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
249] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
250] 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
251] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
252] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
253] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
254] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
255] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
256] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
257] 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.
258] 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)
259] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
260] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
261] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
262] 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
263] 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.
264] 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
265] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
266] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
267] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
268] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
269] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
270] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
271] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
272] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
273] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
274] 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.
275] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
276] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
277] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
278] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
279] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
280] 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
281] 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.
282] 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.
283] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
284] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
285] 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.
286] 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
287] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
288] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
289] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
290] 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.
291] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
292] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
293] 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.
294] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
295] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
296] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
297] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
298] 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.
299] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
300] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
301] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
302] 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.
303] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
304] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
305] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
306] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
307] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
308] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
309] 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.
310] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
311] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
312] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
313] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
314] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
315] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
316] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
317] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
318] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
319] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
320] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
321] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
322] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
323] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
324] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
325] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
326] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
327] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
328] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
329] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
330] 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)
331] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
332] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
333] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
334] 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.
335] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
336] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
337] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
338] 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
339] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
340] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
341] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
342] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
343] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
344] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
345] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
346] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
347] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
348] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
349] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
350] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
351] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
352] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
353] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
354] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
355] 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
356] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
357] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
358] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
359] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
360] 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
361] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
362] 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.
363] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
364] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
365] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
366] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
367] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
368] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
369] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
370] 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.
371] 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
372] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
373] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
374] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
375] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
376] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
377] 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
378] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
379] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
380] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
381] 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
382] 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.
383] 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
384] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
385] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
386] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
387] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
388] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
389] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
390] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
391] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
392] 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
393] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
394] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
395] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
396] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
397] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
398] 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.
399] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
400] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
401] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
402] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
403] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
404] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
405] 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
406] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
407] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
408] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
409] 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)
410] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
411] Commonsense is not so common.
412] 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.
413] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
414] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
415] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
416] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
417] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
418] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
419] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
420] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
421] 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.
422] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
423] 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.
424] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
425] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
426] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
427] 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.
428] 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.
429] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
430] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
431] 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.
432] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
433] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
434] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
435] 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
436] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
437] 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)
438] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
439] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
440] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
441] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
442] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
443] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
444] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
445] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
446] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
447] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
448] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
449] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
450] 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
451] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
452] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
453] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
454] 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.
455] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
456] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
457] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
458] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
459] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
460] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
461] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
462] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
463] 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)
464] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
465] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
466] 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.
467] 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.
468] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
469] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
470] 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)
471] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
472] 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.
473] 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.
474] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
475] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
476] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
477] 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
478] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
479] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
480] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
481] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
482] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
483] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
484] 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
485] 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
486] 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)
487] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
488] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
489] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
490] 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]
491] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
492] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
493] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
494] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
495] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
496] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
497] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
498] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
499] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
500] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
501] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
502] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
503] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
504] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
505] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
506] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
507] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
508] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
509] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
510] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
511] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
512] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
513] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
514] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
515] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
516] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
517] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
518] 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 .
519] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
520] 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.
521] 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.
522] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
523] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
524] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
525] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
526] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
527] 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.
528] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
529] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
530] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
531] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
532] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
533] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
534] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
535] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
536] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
537] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
538] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
539] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
540] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
541] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
542] 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
543] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
544] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
545] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
546] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
547] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
548] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
549] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
550] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
551] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
552] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
553] 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)
554] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
555] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
556] 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
557] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
558] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
559] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
560] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
561] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
562] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
563] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
564] 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]
565] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
566] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
567] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
568] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
569] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
570] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
571] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
572] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
573] 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.
574] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
575] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
576] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
577] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
578] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
579] 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
580] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
581] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
582] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
583] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
584] 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.
585] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
586] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
587] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
588] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
589] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
590] 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.
591] 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
592] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
593] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
594] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
595] 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.
596] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
597] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
598] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
599] 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)
600] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.