Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
2] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
3] 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
4] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
5] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
6] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
7] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
8] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
9] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
10] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
11] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
12] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
13] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
14] 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
15] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
16] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
17] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
18] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
19] Commonsense is not so common.
20] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
21] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
22] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
23] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
24] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
25] 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
26] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
27] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
28] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
29] 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.
30] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
31] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
32] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
33] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
34] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
35] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
36] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
37] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
38] 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.
39] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
40] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
41] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
42] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
43] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
44] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
45] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
47] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
48] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
49] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
50] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
51] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
52] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
53] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
54] 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)
55] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
56] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
57] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
58] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
59] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
60] 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
61] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
62] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
63] 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.
64] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
65] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
66] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
67] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
68] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
69] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
70] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
71] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
72] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
73] 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
74] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
75] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
76] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
77] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
78] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
79] 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
80] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
81] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
82] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
83] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
84] 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.
85] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
86] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
87] 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.
88] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
89] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
90] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
91] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
92] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
93] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
94] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
95] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
96] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
97] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
98] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
99] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
100] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
101] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
102] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
103] 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.
104] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
105] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
106] 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.
107] 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.
108] 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)
109] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
110] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
111] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
112] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
113] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
114] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
115] 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.
116] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
117] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
118] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
119] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
120] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
121] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
122] 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.
123] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
124] 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
125] 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
126] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
127] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
128] 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)
129] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
130] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
131] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
132] 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
133] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
134] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
135] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
136] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
137] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
138] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
139] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
140] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
141] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
142] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
143] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
144] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
145] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
146] 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)
147] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
148] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
149] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
150] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
151] 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
152] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
153] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
154] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
155] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
156] 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.
157] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
158] 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
159] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
160] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
161] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
162] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
163] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
164] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
165] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
166] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
167] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
168] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
169] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
170] 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.
171] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
172] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
173] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
174] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
175] 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.”
176] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
177] 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.
178] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
179] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
180] 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.
181] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
182] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
183] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
184] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
185] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
186] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
187] 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.
188] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
189] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
190] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
191] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
192] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
193] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
194] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
195] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
196] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
197] 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.
198] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
199] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
200] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
201] 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
202] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
203] 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
204] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
205] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
206] 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.
207] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
208] 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.
209] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
210] 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.
211] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
212] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
213] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
214] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
215] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
216] 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
217] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
218] 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
219] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
220] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
221] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
222] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
223] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
224] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
225] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
226] 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.
227] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
228] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
229] 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.
230] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
231] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
232] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
233] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
234] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
235] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
236] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
237] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
238] 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.
239] 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)
240] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
241] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
242] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
243] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
244] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
245] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
246] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
247] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
248] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
249] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
250] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
251] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
252] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
253] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
254] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
255] 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
256] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
257] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
258] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
259] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
260] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
261] 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
262] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
263] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
264] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
265] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
266] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
267] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
268] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
269] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
270] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
271] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
272] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
273] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
274] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
275] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
276] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
277] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
278] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
279] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
280] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
281] 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.
282] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
283] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
284] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
285] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
286] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
287] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
288] 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
289] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
290] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
291] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
292] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
293] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
294] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
295] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
296] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
297] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
298] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
299] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
300] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
301] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
302] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
303] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
304] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
305] 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
306] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
307] 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
308] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
309] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
310] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
311] 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.
312] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
313] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
314] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
315] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
316] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
317] 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.
318] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
319] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
320] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
321] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
322] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
323] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
324] 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.
325] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
326] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
327] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
328] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
329] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
330] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
331] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
332] 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
333] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
334] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
335] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
336] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
337] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
338] 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
339] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
340] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
341] 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 .
342] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
343] 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)
344] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
345] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
346] 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
347] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
348] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
349] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
350] 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.
351] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
352] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
353] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
354] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
355] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
356] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
357] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
358] 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
359] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
360] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
361] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
362] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
363] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
364] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
365] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
366] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
367] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
368] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
369] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
370] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
371] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
372] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
373] 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)
374] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
375] 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)
376] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
377] 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.
378] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
379] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
380] 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
381] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
382] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
383] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
384] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
385] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
386] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
387] 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
388] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
389] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
390] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
391] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
392] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
393] 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.
394] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
395] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
396] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
397] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
398] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
399] 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.
400] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
401] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
402] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
403] 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.
404] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
405] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
406] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
407] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
408] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
409] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
410] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
411] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
412] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
413] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
414] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
415] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
416] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
417] 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
418] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
419] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
420] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
421] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
422] 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
423] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
424] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
425] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
426] 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)
427] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
428] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
429] 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
430] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
431] 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
432] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
433] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
434] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
435] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
436] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
437] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
438] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
439] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
440] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
441] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
442] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
443] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
444] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
445] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
446] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
447] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
448] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
449] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
450] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
451] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
452] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
453] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
454] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
455] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
456] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
457] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
458] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
459] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
460] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
461] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
462] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
463] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
464] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
465] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
466] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
467] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
468] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
469] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
470] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
471] 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.
472] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
473] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
474] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
475] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
476] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
477] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
478] 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
479] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
480] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
481] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
482] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
483] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
484] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
485] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
487] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
488] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
489] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
490] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
491] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
492] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
493] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
494] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
495] 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)
496] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
497] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
498] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
499] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
500] 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)
501] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
502] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
503] 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
504] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
505] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
506] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
507] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
508] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
509] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
510] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
512] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
513] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
514] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
515] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
516] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
517] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
518] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
519] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
520] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
521] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
522] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
523] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
524] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
525] 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.
526] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
527] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
528] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
529] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
530] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
531] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
532] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
533] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
534] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
535] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
536] 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
537] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
538] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
539] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
540] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
541] 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
542] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
543] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
544] 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.
545] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
546] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
547] 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
548] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
549] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
550] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
551] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
552] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
553] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
554] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
555] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
556] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
557] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
558] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
559] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
560] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
561] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
562] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
563] 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.
564] 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
565] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
566] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
567] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
568] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
569] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
570] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
571] 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.
572] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
573] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
574] 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.
575] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
576] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
577] 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)
578] 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.
579] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
580] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
581] 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
582] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
583] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
584] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
585] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
586] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
587] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
588] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
589] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
590] 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.
591] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
592] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
593] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
594] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
595] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
596] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
597] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
598] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
599] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
600] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge