Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
2] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
3] 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.
4] 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.
5] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
6] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
7] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
8] 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
9] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
10] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
11] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
12] 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.
13] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
14] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
15] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
16] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
17] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
18] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
20] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
21] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
22] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
23] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
24] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
25] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
26] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
27] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
28] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
29] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
30] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
31] 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.
32] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
33] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
34] 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
35] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
36] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
37] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
38] 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)
39] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
40] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
41] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
42] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
43] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
44] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
45] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
46] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
47] 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.
48] 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.
49] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
50] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
51] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
52] 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
53] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
54] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
55] 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
56] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
57] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
58] 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.
59] 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.
60] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
61] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
62] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
63] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
64] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
65] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
66] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
67] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
68] 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.
69] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
70] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
71] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
72] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
73] 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
74] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
75] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
76] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
77] 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
78] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
79] 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
80] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
81] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
82] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
83] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
84] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
85] 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
86] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
87] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
88] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
89] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
90] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
91] 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.
92] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
93] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
94] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
95] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
96] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
98] 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
99] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
100] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
101] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
102] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
103] 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)
104] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
105] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
106] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
107] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
108] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
109] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
110] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
111] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
112] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
113] 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 .
114] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
115] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
116] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
117] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
118] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
120] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
121] 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)
122] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
123] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
124] 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.
125] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
126] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
127] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
128] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
129] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
130] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
131] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
132] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
133] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
134] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
135] 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.
136] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
137] 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
138] 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.
139] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
140] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
141] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
142] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
143] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
144] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
145] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
146] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
147] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
148] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
149] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
150] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
151] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
152] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
153] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
154] 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.
155] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
156] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
157] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
158] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
159] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
160] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
161] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
162] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
163] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
164] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
165] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
166] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
167] 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)
168] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
169] 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.
170] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
171] 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)
172] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
173] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
174] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
175] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
176] 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
177] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
178] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
179] 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)
180] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
181] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
182] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
183] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
184] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
185] 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
186] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
187] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
188] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
189] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
190] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
191] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
192] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
193] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
194] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
195] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
196] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
197] 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.
198] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
199] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
200] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
201] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
202] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
203] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
204] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
205] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
206] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
207] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
208] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
209] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
210] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
211] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
212] 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
213] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
214] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
215] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
216] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
217] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
218] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
219] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
220] 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.
221] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
222] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
223] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
224] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
225] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
226] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
227] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
228] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
229] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
230] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
231] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
232] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
233] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
234] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
235] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
236] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
237] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
238] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
239] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
240] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
241] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
242] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
243] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
244] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
245] 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
246] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
247] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
248] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
249] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
250] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
251] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
252] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
253] 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.
254] 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.
255] 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
256] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
257] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
258] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
259] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
260] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
261] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
262] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
263] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
264] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
265] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
266] 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.
267] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
268] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
269] 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
270] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
271] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
272] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
273] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
274] 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)
275] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
276] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
277] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
278] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
279] 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
280] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
281] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
282] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
283] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
284] 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)
285] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
286] 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.
287] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
288] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
289] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
290] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
291] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
292] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
293] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
294] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
295] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
296] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
297] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
298] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
299] 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]
300] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
301] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
302] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
303] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
304] 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
305] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
306] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
307] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
308] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
309] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
310] 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.
311] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
312] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
313] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
314] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
315] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
316] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
317] 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
318] 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)
319] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
320] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
321] 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
322] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
323] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
324] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
325] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
326] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
327] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
328] 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.
329] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
330] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
331] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
332] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
333] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
334] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
335] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
336] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
337] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
338] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
339] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
340] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
341] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
342] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
343] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
344] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
345] 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
346] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
347] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
348] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
349] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
350] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
351] 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
352] 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)
353] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
354] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
355] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
356] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
357] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
358] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
359] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
360] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
361] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
362] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
363] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
364] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
365] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
366] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
367] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
368] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
369] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
370] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
371] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
372] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
373] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
374] 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.
375] 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)
376] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
377] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
378] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
379] 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.
380] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
381] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
382] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
383] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
384] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
385] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
386] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
387] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
388] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
389] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
390] 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
391] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
392] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
393] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
394] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
395] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
396] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
397] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
398] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
400] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
401] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
402] 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.
403] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
404] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
405] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
406] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
407] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
408] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
409] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
410] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
411] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
412] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
413] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
414] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
415] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
416] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
417] 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)
418] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
419] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
420] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
421] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
422] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
423] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
424] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
425] 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
426] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
427] 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
428] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
429] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
430] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
431] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
432] 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.
433] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
434] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
435] 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.
436] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
437] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
438] 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)
439] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
440] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
441] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
442] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
443] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
444] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
445] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
446] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
447] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
448] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
449] 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
450] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
451] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
452] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
453] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
454] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
455] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
456] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
457] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
458] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
459] 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).
460] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
461] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
462] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
463] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
464] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
465] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
466] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
467] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
468] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
469] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
470] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
471] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
472] 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.
473] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
474] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
475] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
476] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
477] 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
478] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
479] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
480] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
481] 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).
482] 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
483] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
484] 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
485] 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.
486] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
487] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
488] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
489] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
490] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
491] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
492] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
493] 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.
494] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
495] 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)
496] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
497] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
498] 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.”
499] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
500] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
501] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
502] 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
503] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
504] 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.
505] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
506] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
507] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
508] 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.
509] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
510] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
511] 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
512] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
513] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
514] 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
515] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
516] 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.
517] 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
518] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
519] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
520] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
521] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
522] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
523] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
524] 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)
525] 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.
526] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
527] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
528] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
529] 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.
530] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
531] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
532] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
533] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
534] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
535] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
536] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
537] 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.
538] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
539] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
540] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
541] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
542] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
543] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
544] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
545] 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
546] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
547] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
548] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
549] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
550] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
551] 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.
552] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
553] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
554] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
555] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
556] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
557] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
558] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
559] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
560] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
561] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
562] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
563] 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)
564] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
565] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
566] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
567] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
568] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
569] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
570] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
571] 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)
572] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
573] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
574] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
575] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
576] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
577] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
578] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
579] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
580] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
581] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
582] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
583] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
584] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
585] 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.
586] 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
587] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
588] 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
589] 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
590] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
591] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
592] 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)
593] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
594] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
595] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
596] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
597] 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.
598] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
599] 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.
600] 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)