Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
2] 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
3] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
4] 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.
5] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
6] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
7] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
8] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
9] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
10] 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)
11] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
12] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
13] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
14] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
15] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
16] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
17] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
18] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
19] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
20] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
21] 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
22] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
23] 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).
24] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
25] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
26] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
27] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
28] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
29] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
30] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
31] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
32] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
33] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
34] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
35] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
36] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
37] 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
38] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
39] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
40] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
41] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
42] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
43] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
44] 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.
45] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
46] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
47] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
48] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
49] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
50] 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.
51] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
52] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
53] 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.
54] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
55] 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.
56] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
57] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
58] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
59] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
60] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
61] 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.
62] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
63] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
64] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
65] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
66] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
67] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
68] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
69] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
70] 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)
71] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
72] 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.
73] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
74] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
75] 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
76] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
77] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
78] 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)
79] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
80] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
81] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
82] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
83] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
84] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
85] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
86] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
87] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
88] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
89] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
90] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
91] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
92] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
93] 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.
94] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
95] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
96] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
97] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
98] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
99] 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
100] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
101] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
102] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
103] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
104] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
105] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
106] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
107] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
108] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
109] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
110] 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.
111] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
112] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
113] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
114] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
115] 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)
116] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
117] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
118] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
119] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
120] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
121] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
122] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
123] 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.
124] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
125] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
126] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
127] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
128] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
129] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
130] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
131] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
132] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
133] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
134] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
135] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
136] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
137] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
138] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
139] 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
140] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
141] 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.
142] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
143] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
144] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
145] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
146] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
147] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
148] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
149] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
150] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
151] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
152] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
153] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
154] 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
155] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
156] 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)
157] 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)
158] 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
159] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
160] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
161] 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.
162] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
163] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
164] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
165] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
166] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
167] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
168] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
169] 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)
170] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
171] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
172] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
173] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
174] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
175] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
176] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
177] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
178] 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.
179] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
180] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
181] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
182] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
183] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
184] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
185] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
186] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
187] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
188] 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
189] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
190] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
191] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
192] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
193] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
194] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
195] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
196] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
197] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
198] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
199] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
200] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
201] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
202] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
203] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
204] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
205] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
206] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
207] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
208] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
209] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
210] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
211] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
212] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
213] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
214] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
215] 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.
216] 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
217] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
218] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
219] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
220] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
221] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
222] 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.
223] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
224] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
225] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
226] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
227] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
228] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
229] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
230] 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
231] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
232] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
233] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
234] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
235] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
236] 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)
237] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
238] 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
239] 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.
240] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
241] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
242] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
243] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
244] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
245] 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
246] 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.
247] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
248] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
249] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
250] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
251] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
252] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
253] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
254] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
255] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
256] 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.
257] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
258] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
259] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
260] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
261] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
262] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
263] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
264] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
265] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
266] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
267] 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)
268] 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
269] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
270] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
271] 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.”
272] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
273] 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
274] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
275] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
276] 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)
277] 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.
278] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
279] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
280] 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.
281] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
282] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
283] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
284] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
285] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
286] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
287] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
288] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
289] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
290] 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.
291] 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
292] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
293] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
294] 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
295] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
296] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
297] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
298] 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.
299] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
300] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
301] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
302] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
303] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
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] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
306] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
307] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
308] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
309] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
310] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
311] 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
312] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
313] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
314] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
315] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
316] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
317] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
318] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
319] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
320] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
321] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
322] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
323] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
324] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
325] 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.
326] 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.
327] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
328] 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.
329] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
330] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
331] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
332] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
333] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
334] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
335] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
336] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
337] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
338] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
339] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
340] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
341] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
342] 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)
343] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
344] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
345] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
346] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
347] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
348] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
349] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
350] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
351] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
352] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
353] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
354] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
355] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
356] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
357] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
358] 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
359] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
360] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
361] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
362] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
363] 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)
364] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
365] 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).
366] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
367] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
368] 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
369] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
370] 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)
371] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
372] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
373] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
374] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
375] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
376] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
377] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
378] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
379] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
380] 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.
381] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
382] 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.
383] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
384] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
385] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
386] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
387] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
388] 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
389] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
390] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
391] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
392] 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.
393] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
394] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
395] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
396] 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
397] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
398] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
399] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
400] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
401] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
402] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
403] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
404] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
405] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
406] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
407] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
408] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
409] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
410] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
411] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
412] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
413] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
414] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
415] 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.
416] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
417] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
418] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
419] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
420] 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
421] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
422] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
423] 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)
424] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
425] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
426] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
427] 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)
428] 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
429] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
430] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
431] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
432] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
433] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
434] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
435] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
436] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
437] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
438] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
439] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
440] 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
441] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
442] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
443] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
444] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
445] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
446] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
447] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
448] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
449] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
450] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
451] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
452] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
453] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
454] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
455] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
456] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
457] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
458] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
459] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
460] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
461] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
462] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
463] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
464] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
465] 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)
466] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
467] 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)
468] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
469] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
470] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
471] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
472] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
473] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
474] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
475] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
476] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
477] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
478] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
479] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
480] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
481] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
482] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
483] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
484] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
485] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
486] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
487] 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)
488] 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)
489] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
490] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
491] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
492] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
493] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
494] 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.
495] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
496] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
497] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
498] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
499] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
500] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
501] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
502] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
503] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
504] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
505] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
506] 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
507] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
508] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
509] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
510] 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
511] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
512] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
513] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
514] 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
515] 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.
516] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
517] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
518] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
519] 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.
520] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
521] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
522] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
523] 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.
524] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
525] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
526] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
527] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
528] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
529] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
530] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
531] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
532] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
533] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
534] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
535] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
536] 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
537] 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.
538] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
539] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
540] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
541] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
542] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
543] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
544] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
545] 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]
546] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
547] 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.
548] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
549] 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
550] 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.
551] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
552] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
553] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
554] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
555] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
556] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
557] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
558] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
559] 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]
560] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
561] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
562] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
563] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
564] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
565] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
566] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
567] 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 .
568] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
569] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
570] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
571] 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.
572] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
573] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
574] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
575] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
576] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
577] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
578] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
579] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
580] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
581] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
582] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
583] 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)
584] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
585] 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
586] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
587] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
588] 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.
589] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
590] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
591] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
592] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
593] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
594] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
595] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
596] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
597] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
598] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
599] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
600] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.