Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
2] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
3] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
4] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
5] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
6] 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.
7] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
8] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
9] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
10] 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.
11] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
12] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
13] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
14] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
15] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
16] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
17] 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
18] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
19] 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
20] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
21] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
22] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
23] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
24] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
25] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
26] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
27] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
28] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
29] 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
30] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
31] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
32] 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
33] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
35] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
36] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
37] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
38] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
39] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
40] 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
41] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
42] 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)
43] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
44] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
45] 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
46] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
47] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
48] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
49] 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
50] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
51] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
52] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
53] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
54] 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
55] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
56] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
57] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
58] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
59] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
60] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
61] 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.
62] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
63] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
64] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
65] 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.
66] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
67] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
68] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
69] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
70] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
71] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
72] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
73] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
74] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
75] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
76] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
77] 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
78] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
79] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
80] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
81] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
82] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
83] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
84] 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.
85] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
86] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
87] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
88] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
89] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
90] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
91] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
92] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
93] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
94] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
95] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
96] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
97] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
98] 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
99] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
100] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
101] 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
102] 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
103] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
104] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
105] 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)
106] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
107] 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)
108] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
109] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
110] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
111] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
112] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
113] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
114] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
115] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
116] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
117] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
118] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
119] 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.
120] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
121] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
122] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
123] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
124] 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)
125] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
126] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
127] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
128] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
129] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
130] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
131] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
132] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
134] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
135] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
136] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
137] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
138] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
139] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
140] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
141] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
142] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
143] 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.
144] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
145] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
146] 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
147] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
148] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
149] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
150] 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
151] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
152] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
153] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
154] 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
155] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
156] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
157] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
158] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
159] 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
160] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
161] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
162] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
163] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
164] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
165] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
166] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
167] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
168] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
169] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
170] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
171] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
172] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
173] 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
174] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
175] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
176] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
177] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
178] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
179] 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.
180] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
181] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
182] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
183] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
184] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
185] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
186] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
187] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
188] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
189] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
190] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
191] 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.
192] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
193] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
194] 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)
195] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
196] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
197] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
198] 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
199] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
200] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
201] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
202] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
203] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
204] 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.
205] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
206] 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.
207] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
208] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
209] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
210] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
211] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
212] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
213] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
214] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
215] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
216] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
217] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
218] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
219] 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)
220] 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
221] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
222] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
223] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
224] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
225] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
226] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
227] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
228] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
229] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
230] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
231] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
232] 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
233] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
234] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
235] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
236] 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.
237] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
238] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
239] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
240] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
241] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
242] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
243] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
244] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
245] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
246] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
247] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
248] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
249] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
250] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
251] 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
252] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
253] 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)
254] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
255] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
256] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
257] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
258] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
259] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
260] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
261] 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.
262] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
263] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
264] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
265] 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.
266] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
267] 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
268] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
269] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
270] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
271] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
272] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
273] 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 .
274] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
275] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
276] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
277] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
278] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
279] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
280] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
281] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
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] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
284] 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
285] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
286] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
287] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
288] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
289] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
290] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
291] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
292] 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.
293] 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)
294] 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.
295] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
296] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
297] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
298] 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)
299] 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
300] 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.
301] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
302] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
303] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
304] 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
305] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
306] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
308] 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.
309] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
310] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
311] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
312] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
313] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
314] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
315] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
316] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
317] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
318] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
319] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
320] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
321] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
322] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
323] 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.
324] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
325] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
326] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
327] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
328] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
329] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
330] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
331] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
332] 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.
333] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
334] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
335] 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.
336] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
337] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
338] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
339] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
340] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
341] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
342] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
343] 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.
344] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
345] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
346] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
347] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
348] 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
349] 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.
350] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
351] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
352] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
353] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
354] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
355] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
356] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
357] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
358] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
359] 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
360] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
361] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
362] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
363] 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
364] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
365] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
366] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
367] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
368] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
369] 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
370] 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.
371] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
372] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
373] 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
374] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
375] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
376] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
377] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
378] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
379] 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
380] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
381] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
382] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
383] 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.
384] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
385] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
386] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
387] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
388] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
389] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
390] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
391] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
392] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
393] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
394] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
395] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
396] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
397] 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)
398] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
399] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
400] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
401] 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
402] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
403] 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
404] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
405] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
406] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
407] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
408] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
409] 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.
410] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
411] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
412] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
413] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
414] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
415] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
416] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
417] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
418] 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.
419] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
420] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
421] 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).
422] 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)
423] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
424] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
425] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
426] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
427] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
428] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
429] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
430] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
431] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
432] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
433] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
434] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
435] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
436] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
437] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
438] 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)
439] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
440] 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.
441] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
442] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
443] 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
444] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
445] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
446] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
447] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
448] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
449] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
450] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
451] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
452] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
453] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
454] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
455] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
456] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
457] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
458] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
459] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
460] 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)
461] 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)
462] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
463] 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.
464] 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)
465] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
466] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
467] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
468] 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.
469] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
470] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
471] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
472] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
473] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
474] 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.
475] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
476] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
477] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
478] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
479] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
480] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
481] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
482] 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.
483] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
484] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
485] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
486] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
487] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
488] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
489] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
490] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
491] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
492] 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.
493] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
494] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
495] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
496] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
497] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
498] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
499] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
500] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
501] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
502] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
503] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
504] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
505] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
506] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
507] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
508] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
509] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
510] 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.”
511] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
512] 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.
513] 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.
514] 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]
515] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
516] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
517] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
518] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
519] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
520] 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.
521] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
522] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
523] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
524] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
525] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
526] 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.
527] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
528] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
529] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
530] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
531] 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.
532] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
533] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
534] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
535] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
536] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
537] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
538] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
539] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
540] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
541] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
542] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
543] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
544] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
545] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
546] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
547] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
548] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
549] 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.
550] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
551] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
552] 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
553] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
554] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
555] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
556] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
557] 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.
558] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
559] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
560] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
561] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
562] 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
563] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
564] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
565] 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.
566] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
567] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
568] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
569] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
570] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
571] 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
572] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
573] 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
574] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
575] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
576] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
577] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
578] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
579] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
580] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
581] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
582] 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.
583] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
584] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
585] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
586] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
587] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
588] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
589] 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
590] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
591] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
592] 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.
593] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
594] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
595] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
596] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
597] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
598] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
599] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
600] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin