Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
2] 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
3] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
4] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
5] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
6] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
7] 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.
8] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
9] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
10] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
11] 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.
12] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
13] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
14] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
15] 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
16] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
17] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
18] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
19] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
20] 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.
21] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
22] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
23] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] 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
25] 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.
26] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
27] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
28] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
29] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
30] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
31] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
32] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
33] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
34] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
35] 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
36] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
37] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
38] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
39] 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)
40] 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).
41] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
42] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
43] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
44] 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.
45] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
46] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
47] 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.
48] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
49] 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.
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] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
52] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
53] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
54] 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)
55] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
56] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
57] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
58] 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.”
59] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
60] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
61] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
62] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
63] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
64] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
65] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
66] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
67] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
68] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
69] 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
70] 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)
71] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
72] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
73] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
74] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
75] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
76] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
77] 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)
78] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
79] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
80] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
81] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
82] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
83] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
84] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
85] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
86] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
87] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
88] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
89] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
90] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
91] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
92] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
93] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
94] 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
95] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
96] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
97] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
98] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
99] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
100] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
101] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
102] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
103] 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.
104] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
105] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
106] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
107] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
108] 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.
109] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
110] 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.
111] 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.
112] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
113] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
114] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
115] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
117] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
118] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
119] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
120] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
121] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
122] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
123] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
124] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
125] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
126] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
127] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
128] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
129] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
130] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
131] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
132] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
133] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
134] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
135] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
136] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
137] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
138] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
140] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
141] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
142] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
143] 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
144] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
145] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
146] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
147] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
148] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
149] 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.
150] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
151] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
152] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
153] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
154] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
155] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
156] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
157] 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)
158] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
159] 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.
160] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
161] 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)
162] 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
163] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
164] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
165] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
166] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
167] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
168] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
169] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
170] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
171] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
172] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
173] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
174] 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
175] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
176] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
177] 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.
178] 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
179] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
180] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
181] 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.
182] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
183] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
184] 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.
185] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
186] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
187] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
188] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
189] 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.
190] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
191] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
192] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
193] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
194] 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.
195] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
196] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
197] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
198] 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.
199] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
200] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
201] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
202] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
203] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
204] 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.
205] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
206] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
207] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
208] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
209] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
210] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
211] 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
212] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
213] 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.
214] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
215] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
216] 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)
217] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
218] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
219] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
220] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
221] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
222] 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.
223] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
224] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
225] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
226] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
227] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
228] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
229] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
230] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
231] 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.
232] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
233] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
234] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
235] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
236] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
237] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
238] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
239] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
240] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
241] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
242] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
243] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
244] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
245] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
246] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
247] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
249] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
250] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
251] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
252] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
253] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
254] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
255] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
256] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
257] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
258] 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
259] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
260] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
261] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
262] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
263] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
264] 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.
265] 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.
266] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
267] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
268] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
269] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
270] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
271] 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
272] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
273] 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.
274] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
275] 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)
276] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
277] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
278] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
279] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
280] 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.
281] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
282] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
283] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
284] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
285] 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
286] 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.
287] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
288] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
289] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
290] 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
291] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
292] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
293] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
294] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
295] 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)
296] 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
297] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
298] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
299] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
300] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
301] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
302] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
303] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
304] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
305] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
306] 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.
307] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
308] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
309] 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
310] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
311] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
312] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
313] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
314] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
315] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
316] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
317] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
318] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
319] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
320] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
321] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
322] 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)
323] 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
324] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
325] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
326] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
327] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
328] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
329] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
330] 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.
331] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
332] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
333] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
334] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
335] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
336] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
337] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
338] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
339] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
340] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
341] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
342] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
343] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
344] 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)
345] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
346] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
347] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
348] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
349] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
350] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
351] 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.
352] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
353] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
354] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
355] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
356] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
357] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
358] 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.
359] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
360] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
361] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
362] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
363] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
364] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
365] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
366] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
367] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
368] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
369] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
370] 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.
371] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
372] 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
373] 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.
374] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
375] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
376] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
377] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
378] 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.
379] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
380] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
381] 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.
382] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
383] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
384] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
385] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
386] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
387] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
388] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
389] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
390] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
391] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
392] 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
393] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
394] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
395] 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)
396] 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.
397] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
398] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
399] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
400] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
401] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
402] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
403] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
404] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
405] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
406] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
407] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
408] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
409] 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.
410] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
411] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
412] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
413] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
414] 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]
415] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
416] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
417] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
418] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
419] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
420] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
421] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
422] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
423] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
424] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
425] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
426] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
427] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
428] Commonsense is not so common.
429] 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)
430] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
431] 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)
432] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
433] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
434] 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
435] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
436] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
437] 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
438] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
439] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
440] 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
441] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
442] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
443] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
444] 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
445] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
446] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
447] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
448] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
449] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
450] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
451] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
452] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
453] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
454] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
455] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
456] 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.
457] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
458] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
459] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
460] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
461] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
462] 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
463] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
464] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
465] 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
466] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
467] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
468] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
469] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
470] 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.
471] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
472] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
473] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
474] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
475] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
476] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
477] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
478] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
479] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
480] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
481] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
482] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
483] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
484] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
485] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
486] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
487] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
488] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
489] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
490] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
491] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
492] 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
493] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
494] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
495] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
496] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
497] 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
498] 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
499] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
500] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
501] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
502] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
503] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
504] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
505] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
506] 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)
507] 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
508] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
509] 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
510] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
511] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
512] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
513] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
514] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
515] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
516] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
517] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
518] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
519] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
520] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
521] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
522] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
523] 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
524] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
525] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
526] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
527] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
528] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
529] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
530] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
531] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
532] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
533] 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
534] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
535] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
536] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
537] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
538] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
539] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
540] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
541] 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
542] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
543] 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
544] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
545] 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.
546] 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.
547] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
548] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
549] 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.
550] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
551] 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.
552] 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
553] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
554] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
555] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
556] 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.
557] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
558] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
559] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
560] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
561] 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)
562] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
563] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
564] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
565] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
566] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
567] 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)
568] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
569] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
570] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
571] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
572] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
573] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
574] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
575] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
576] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
577] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
578] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
579] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
580] 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.
581] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
582] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
583] 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
584] 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.
585] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
586] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
587] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
588] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
589] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
590] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
591] 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
592] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
593] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
594] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
595] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
596] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
597] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
598] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
599] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
600] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.