Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
2] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
3] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
4] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
5] 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.
6] 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
7] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
8] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
9] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
10] 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.
11] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
12] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
13] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
14] 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.
15] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
16] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
17] 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
18] 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
19] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
20] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
21] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
22] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
23] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
24] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
25] 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
26] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
27] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
28] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
29] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
30] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
31] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
32] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
33] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
35] 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.
36] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
37] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
38] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
39] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
40] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
41] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
42] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
43] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
44] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
45] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
46] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
47] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
48] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
49] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
50] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
51] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
52] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
53] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
54] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
55] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
56] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
57] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
58] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
59] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
60] 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.
61] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
62] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
63] 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
64] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
65] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
66] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
67] 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)
68] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
69] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
70] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
71] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
72] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
73] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
74] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
75] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
76] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
77] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
78] 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
79] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
80] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
81] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
82] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
83] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
84] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
85] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
86] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
87] 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
88] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
89] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
90] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
91] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
92] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
93] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
94] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
95] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
96] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
97] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
98] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
99] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
100] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
101] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
102] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
103] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
104] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
105] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
106] 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
107] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
108] 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)
109] 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)
110] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
111] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
112] 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.
113] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
114] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
115] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
116] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
117] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
118] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
119] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
120] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
121] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
122] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
123] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
124] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
125] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
126] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
127] 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)
128] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
129] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
130] 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)
131] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
132] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
133] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
134] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
135] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
136] 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)
137] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
138] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
139] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
140] 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)
141] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
142] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
143] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
144] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
145] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
146] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
147] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
148] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
149] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
150] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
151] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
152] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
153] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
154] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
155] 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.
156] 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.
157] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
158] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
159] 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)
160] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
161] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
162] 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)
163] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
164] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
165] 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
166] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
167] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
168] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
169] 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.
170] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
171] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
172] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
173] 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 .
174] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
175] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
176] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
177] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
178] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
179] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
180] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
181] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
182] 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
183] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
184] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
185] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
186] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
187] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
189] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
190] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
191] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
192] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
193] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
194] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
195] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
196] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
197] 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)
198] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
199] 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.
200] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
201] 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
202] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
203] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
204] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
205] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
206] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
207] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
208] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
209] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
210] 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
211] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
212] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
213] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
214] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
215] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
216] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
217] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
218] 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.
219] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
220] 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.
221] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
222] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
223] 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.
224] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
225] 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.
226] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
227] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
228] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
229] 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.
230] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
231] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
232] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
233] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
234] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
235] 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
236] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
237] Commonsense is not so common.
238] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
239] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
240] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
241] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
242] 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.
243] 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.
244] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
245] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
246] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
247] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
248] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
249] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
250] 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
251] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
252] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
253] 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.
254] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
255] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
256] 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.
257] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
258] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
259] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
260] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
261] 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
262] 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
263] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
264] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
265] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
266] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
267] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
268] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
269] 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
270] 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.
271] 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.
272] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
273] 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
274] 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.
275] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
276] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
277] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
278] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
279] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
280] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
281] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
282] 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
283] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
284] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
285] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
286] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
287] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
288] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
289] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
290] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
291] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
292] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
293] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
294] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
295] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
296] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
297] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
298] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
299] 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.
300] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
301] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
302] 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
303] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
304] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
305] 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.
306] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
307] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
308] 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.
309] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
310] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
311] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
312] 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
313] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
314] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
315] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
316] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
317] 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.
318] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
319] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
320] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
321] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
322] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
323] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
324] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
325] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
326] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
327] 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.
328] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
329] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
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] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
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] 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
334] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
335] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
336] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
337] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
338] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
339] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
340] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
341] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
342] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
343] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
344] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
345] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
346] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
347] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
348] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
349] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
350] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
351] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
352] 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
353] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
354] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
355] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
356] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
357] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
358] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
359] 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
360] 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.
361] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
362] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
363] 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)
364] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
365] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
366] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
367] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
368] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
369] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
370] 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.
371] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
372] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
373] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
374] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
375] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
376] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
377] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
378] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
379] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
380] 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.
381] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
382] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
383] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
384] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
385] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
386] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
387] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
388] 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)
389] 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)
390] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
391] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
392] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
393] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
394] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
395] 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]
396] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
397] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
398] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
399] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
400] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
401] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
402] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
403] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
404] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
405] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
406] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
407] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
408] 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
409] 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)
410] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
411] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
412] 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
413] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
414] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
415] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
416] 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.
417] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
418] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
419] 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
420] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
421] 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
422] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
423] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
424] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
425] Commonsense is not so common.
426] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
427] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
428] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
429] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
430] 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.
431] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
432] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
433] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
434] 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
435] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
436] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
437] 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
438] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
439] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
440] 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
441] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
442] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
443] 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
444] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
445] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
446] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
447] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
448] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
449] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
450] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
451] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
452] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
453] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
454] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
455] 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.
456] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
457] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
458] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
459] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
460] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
461] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
462] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
463] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
464] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
465] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
466] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
467] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
468] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
469] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
470] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
471] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
472] 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.
473] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
474] 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
475] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
476] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
477] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
478] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
479] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
480] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
481] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
482] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
483] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
484] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
485] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
486] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
487] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
488] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
489] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
490] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
491] 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.
492] 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.
493] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
494] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
495] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
496] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
497] 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.
498] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
499] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
500] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
501] 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.
502] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
503] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
504] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
505] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
506] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
507] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
508] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
509] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
510] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
511] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
512] 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
513] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
514] 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)
515] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
516] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
517] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
518] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
519] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
520] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
521] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
522] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
523] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
524] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
525] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
526] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
527] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
528] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
529] 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).
530] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
531] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
532] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
533] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
534] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
535] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
536] 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
537] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
538] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
539] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
540] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
541] 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
542] 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)
543] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
544] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
545] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
546] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
547] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
548] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
549] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
550] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
551] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
552] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
553] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
554] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
555] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
556] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
557] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
558] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
559] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
560] 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)
561] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
562] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
563] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
564] 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)
565] 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.
566] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
567] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
568] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
569] 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.
570] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
571] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
572] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
573] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
574] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
575] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
576] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
577] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
578] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
579] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
580] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
581] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
582] 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
583] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
584] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
585] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
586] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
587] 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
588] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
589] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
590] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
591] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
592] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
593] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
594] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
595] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
596] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
597] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
598] 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)
599] 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)
600] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain