Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
2] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
3] 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
4] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
5] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
6] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
7] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
8] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
9] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
10] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
11] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
12] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
13] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
14] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
15] 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
16] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
17] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
18] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
19] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
20] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
21] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
22] 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.
23] 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.
24] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
26] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
27] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
28] 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
29] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
30] 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.
31] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
32] 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.
33] 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
34] 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.
35] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
36] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
37] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
38] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
39] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
40] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
41] 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.
42] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
43] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
44] 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
45] 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.
46] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
47] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
48] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
49] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
50] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
51] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
52] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
53] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
54] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
55] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
56] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
57] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
58] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
59] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
60] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
61] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
62] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
63] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
64] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
65] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
66] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
67] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
68] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
69] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
70] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
71] 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)
72] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
73] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
74] 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
75] 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.
76] 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.
77] 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.
78] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
79] 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.
80] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
81] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
82] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
83] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
84] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
85] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
86] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
87] 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)
88] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
89] 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.
90] 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
91] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
92] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
93] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
94] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
95] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
96] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
97] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
98] 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
99] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
100] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
101] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
102] 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.
103] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
104] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
105] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
106] 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)
107] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
108] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
109] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
110] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
111] 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)
112] 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.
113] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
114] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
115] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
117] 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.
118] 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]
119] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
120] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
121] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
122] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
123] 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
124] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
125] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
126] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
127] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
128] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
129] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
130] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
131] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
132] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
133] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
134] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
135] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
136] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
137] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
138] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
139] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
140] 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.
141] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
142] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
143] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
144] 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.
145] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
146] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
147] 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.
148] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
149] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
150] 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
151] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
152] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
153] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
154] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
155] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
156] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
157] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
158] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
159] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
160] 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
161] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
162] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
163] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
164] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
165] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
166] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
167] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
168] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
169] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
170] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
171] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
172] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
173] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
174] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
175] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
176] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
177] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
178] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
179] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
180] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
181] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
182] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
183] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
184] 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
185] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
186] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
187] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
188] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
189] 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.
190] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
191] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
192] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
193] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
194] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
195] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
196] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
197] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
198] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
199] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
200] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
201] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
202] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
203] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
204] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
205] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
206] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
207] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
208] 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).
209] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
210] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
211] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
212] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
213] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
214] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
215] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
216] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
217] 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.
218] 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)
219] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
220] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
221] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
222] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
223] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
224] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
225] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
226] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
227] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
228] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
229] 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)
230] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
231] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
232] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
233] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
234] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
235] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
236] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
237] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
238] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
239] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
240] 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
241] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
242] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
243] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
244] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
245] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
246] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
247] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
248] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
249] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
250] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
251] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
252] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
253] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
254] 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)
255] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
256] 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
257] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
258] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
259] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
260] 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
261] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
262] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
263] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
264] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
265] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
266] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
267] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
268] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
269] 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
270] 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
271] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
272] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
273] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
274] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
275] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
276] 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)
277] 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
278] 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.
279] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
280] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
281] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
282] 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.
283] 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
284] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
285] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
286] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
287] Commonsense is not so common.
288] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
289] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
290] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
291] 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.
292] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
293] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
294] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
295] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
296] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
297] 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.
298] 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
299] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
300] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
301] 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)
302] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
303] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
304] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
305] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
306] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
307] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
308] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
309] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
310] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
311] 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.
312] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
313] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
314] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
315] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
316] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
317] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
318] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
319] 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.
320] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
321] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
322] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
323] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
324] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
325] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
326] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
327] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
328] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
329] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
330] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
331] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
332] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
333] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
334] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
335] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
336] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
337] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
338] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
339] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
340] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
341] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
342] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
343] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
344] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
345] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
346] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
347] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
348] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
349] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
350] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
351] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
352] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
353] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
354] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
355] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
356] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
357] 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.
358] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
359] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
360] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
361] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
362] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
363] 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)
364] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
365] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
366] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
367] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
368] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
369] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
370] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
371] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
372] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
373] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
374] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
375] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
376] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
377] 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
378] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
379] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
380] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
381] 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
382] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
383] 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
384] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
385] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
386] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
387] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
388] 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)
389] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
390] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
391] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
392] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
393] 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
394] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
395] 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
396] 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)
397] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
398] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
399] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
400] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
401] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
402] 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.
403] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
404] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
405] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
406] 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
407] 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.
408] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
409] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
410] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
411] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
412] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
413] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
414] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
415] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
416] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
417] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
418] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
419] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
420] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
421] 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.
422] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
423] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
424] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
425] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
426] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
427] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
428] 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
429] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
430] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
431] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
432] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
433] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
434] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
435] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
436] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
437] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
438] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
439] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
440] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
441] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
442] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
443] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
444] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
445] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
446] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
447] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
448] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
449] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
450] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
451] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
452] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
453] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
454] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
455] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
456] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
457] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
458] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
459] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
460] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
461] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
462] 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.
463] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
464] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
465] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
466] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
467] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
468] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
469] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
470] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
471] 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.
472] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
473] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
474] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
475] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
476] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
477] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
478] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
479] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
480] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
481] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
482] 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.
483] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
484] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
485] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
486] 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
487] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
488] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
489] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
490] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
491] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
492] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
493] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
494] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
495] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
496] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
497] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
498] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
499] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
500] 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.
501] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
502] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
503] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
504] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
505] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
506] 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.”
507] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
508] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
509] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
510] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
511] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
512] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
513] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
514] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
515] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
516] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
517] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
518] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
519] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
520] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
521] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
522] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
523] 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
524] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
525] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
526] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
527] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
528] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
529] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
530] 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.
531] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
532] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
533] 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
534] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
535] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
536] 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
537] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
538] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
539] 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)
540] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
541] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
542] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
543] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
544] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
545] 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.
546] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
547] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
548] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
549] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
550] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
551] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
552] 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.
553] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
554] 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)
555] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
556] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
557] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
558] 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.
559] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
560] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
561] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
562] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
563] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
564] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
565] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
566] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
567] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
568] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
569] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
570] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
571] 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.
572] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
573] 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
574] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
575] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
576] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
577] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
578] 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)
579] 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.
580] 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.
581] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
582] 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.
583] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
584] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
585] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
586] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
587] 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.
588] 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)
589] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
590] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
591] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
592] 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.
593] Commonsense is not so common.
594] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
595] 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
596] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
597] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
598] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
599] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
600] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.