Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
2] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
3] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
4] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
5] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
6] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
7] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
8] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
9] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
10] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
11] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
12] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
13] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
14] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
15] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
16] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
17] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
18] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
19] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
20] 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.
21] 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).
22] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
23] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
24] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
25] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
26] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
27] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
28] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
29] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
30] 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
31] 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.
32] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
33] 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.
34] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
35] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
36] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
37] 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.
38] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
39] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
40] 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
41] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
44] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
45] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
46] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
47] 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
48] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
49] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
50] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
51] 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.
52] 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.
53] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
54] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
55] 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)
56] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
57] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
58] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
59] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
60] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
61] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
62] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
63] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
64] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
65] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
66] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
67] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
68] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
69] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
70] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
71] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
72] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
73] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
74] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
75] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
76] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
77] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
78] 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.
79] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
80] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
81] 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
82] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
83] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
84] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
85] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
86] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
87] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
88] 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
89] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
90] 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.
91] 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
92] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
93] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
94] 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)
95] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
96] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
97] 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)
98] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
99] 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)
100] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
101] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
102] 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
103] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
104] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
105] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
106] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
107] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
108] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
109] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
110] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
111] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
112] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
113] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
114] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
115] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
116] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
117] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
118] 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.
119] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
120] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
121] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
122] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
123] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
124] 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
125] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
126] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
127] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
128] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
129] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
130] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
131] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
132] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
133] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
134] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
135] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
136] 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.
137] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
138] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
139] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
140] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
141] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
142] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
143] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
145] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
146] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
147] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
148] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
149] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
150] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
151] 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.
152] 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
153] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
154] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
155] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
156] 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.
157] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
158] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
159] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
160] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
161] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
162] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
163] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
164] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
165] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
166] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
167] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
168] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
169] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
170] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
171] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
172] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
173] 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.
174] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
175] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
176] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
177] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
178] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
179] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
180] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
181] 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.
182] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
183] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
184] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
185] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
186] 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.
187] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
188] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
189] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
190] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
191] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
192] 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
193] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
194] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
195] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
196] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
197] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
198] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
199] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
200] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
201] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
202] 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.
203] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
204] 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
205] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
206] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
207] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
208] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
209] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
210] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
211] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
212] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
213] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
214] 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).
215] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
216] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
217] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
218] 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.
219] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
220] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
221] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
222] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
223] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
224] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
225] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
226] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
227] 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)
228] 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)
229] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
230] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
231] 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.
232] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
233] 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
234] 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.
235] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
236] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
237] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
238] 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
239] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
240] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
241] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
242] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
243] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
245] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
246] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
247] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
248] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
249] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
250] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
251] 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
252] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
253] 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.
254] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
255] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
256] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
257] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
258] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
259] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
260] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
261] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
262] 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
263] 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
264] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
265] 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)
266] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
267] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
268] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
269] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
270] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
271] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
272] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
273] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
274] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
275] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
276] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
277] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
278] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
279] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
280] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
281] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
282] 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.
283] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
284] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
285] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
286] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
287] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
288] 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
289] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
290] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
291] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
292] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
293] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
294] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
295] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
298] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
299] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
300] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
301] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
302] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
303] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
304] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
305] 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)
306] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
307] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
308] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
309] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
310] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
311] 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.
312] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
313] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
314] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
315] 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.
316] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
317] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
318] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
319] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
320] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
321] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
322] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
323] 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]
324] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
325] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
326] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
327] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
328] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
329] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
330] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
331] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
332] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
333] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
334] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
335] 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
336] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
337] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
338] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
339] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
340] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
341] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
342] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
343] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
344] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
345] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
346] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
347] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
348] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
349] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
350] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
351] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
352] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
353] 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.
354] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
355] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
356] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
357] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
358] 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.
359] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
360] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
361] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
362] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
363] 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.
364] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
365] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
366] 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.
367] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
368] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
369] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
370] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
371] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
372] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
373] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
374] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
375] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
376] 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.
377] 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).
378] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
379] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
380] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
381] 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.
382] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
383] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
384] 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.
385] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
386] 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.
387] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
388] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
389] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
390] 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)
391] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
392] 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).
393] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
394] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
395] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
396] 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
397] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
398] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
399] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
400] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
401] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
402] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
403] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
404] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
405] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
406] 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)
407] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
408] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
409] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
410] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
411] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
412] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
413] 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.
414] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
415] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
416] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
417] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
418] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
419] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
420] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
421] 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
422] 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.”
423] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
424] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
425] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
426] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
427] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
428] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
429] 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.
430] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
431] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
432] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
433] 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.
434] 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
435] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
436] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
437] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
438] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
439] 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.
440] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
441] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
442] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
443] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
444] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
445] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
446] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
447] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
448] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
449] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
450] 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.
451] 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]
452] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
453] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
454] 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.
455] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
456] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
457] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
458] 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
459] 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.
460] 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
461] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
462] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
463] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
464] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
465] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
466] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
467] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
468] 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
469] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
470] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
471] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
472] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
473] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
474] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
475] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
476] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
477] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
478] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
479] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
480] 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
481] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
482] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
483] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
484] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
485] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
486] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
487] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
488] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
489] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
490] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
491] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
492] 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)
493] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
494] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
495] 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.
496] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
497] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
498] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
499] 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
500] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
501] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
502] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
503] Commonsense is not so common.
504] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
505] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
506] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
507] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
508] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
509] 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
510] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
511] 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.
512] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
513] 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.
514] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
515] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
516] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
517] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
518] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
519] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
520] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
521] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
522] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
523] 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
524] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
525] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
526] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
527] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
528] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
529] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
530] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
531] 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)
532] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
533] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
534] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
535] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
536] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
537] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
538] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
539] 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
540] 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)
541] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
542] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
543] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
544] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
545] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
546] 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.
547] 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
548] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
549] 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.
550] 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)
551] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
552] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
553] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
554] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
555] 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.
556] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
557] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
558] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
559] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
560] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
561] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
562] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
563] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
564] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
565] 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.
566] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
567] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
568] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
569] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
570] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
571] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
572] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
573] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
574] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
575] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
576] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
577] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
578] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
579] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
580] Commonsense is not so common.
581] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
582] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
583] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
584] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
585] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
586] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
587] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
588] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
589] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
590] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
591] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
592] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
593] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
594] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
595] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
596] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
597] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
598] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
599] 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
600] 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