Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
2] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
3] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
4] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
5] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
6] 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.”
7] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
8] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
9] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
10] 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.
11] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
12] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
13] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
14] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
15] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
16] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
17] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
18] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
19] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
20] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
21] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
22] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
23] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
24] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
25] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
26] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
27] 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
28] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
29] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
30] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
31] 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.
32] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
33] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
34] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
35] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
36] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
37] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
38] 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.
39] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
40] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
41] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
42] 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)
43] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
44] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
45] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
46] 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
47] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
48] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
49] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
50] 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.
51] 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.
52] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
53] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
54] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
55] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
56] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
57] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
58] 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.
59] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
60] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
61] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
62] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
63] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
64] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
65] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
66] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
67] 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
68] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
69] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
70] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
71] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
72] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
73] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
74] 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
75] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
76] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
77] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
78] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
79] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
80] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
81] 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
82] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
83] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
84] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
85] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
86] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
87] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
88] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
89] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
90] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
91] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
92] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
93] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
94] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
95] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
96] 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)
97] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
98] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
99] 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.
100] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
101] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
102] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
103] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
104] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
105] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
106] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
107] 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)
108] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
109] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
110] 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)
111] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
112] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
113] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
114] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
115] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
116] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
117] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
118] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
119] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
120] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
121] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
122] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
123] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
124] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
125] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
126] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
127] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
128] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
129] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
130] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
131] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
132] 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
133] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
134] 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.
135] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
136] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
137] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
138] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
139] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
140] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
141] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
142] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
143] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
144] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
145] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
146] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
147] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
148] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
149] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
150] 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
151] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
152] 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)
153] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
154] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
155] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
156] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
157] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
158] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
159] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
160] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
161] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
162] 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
163] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
164] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
165] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
166] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
167] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
168] 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
169] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
170] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
171] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
172] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
173] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
174] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
175] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
176] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
177] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
178] 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.
179] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
180] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
181] 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
182] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
183] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
184] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
185] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
186] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
187] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
189] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
190] 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
191] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
192] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
193] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
194] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
195] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
196] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
197] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
198] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
199] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
200] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
201] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
202] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
203] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
204] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
205] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
206] 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.
207] 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.
208] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
209] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
210] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
211] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
212] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
213] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
214] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
215] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
216] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
217] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
218] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
219] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
221] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
222] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
223] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
224] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
225] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
226] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
227] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
228] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
229] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
230] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
231] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
232] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
233] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
234] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
235] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
236] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
237] 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).
238] 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.
239] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
240] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
241] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
242] 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.
243] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
244] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
245] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
246] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
247] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
248] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
249] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
250] 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]
251] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
252] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
253] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
254] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
255] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
256] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
257] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
258] 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.
259] 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
260] 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.
261] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
262] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
263] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
264] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
266] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
267] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
268] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
269] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
270] 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
271] 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
272] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
273] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
274] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
275] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
276] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
277] 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
278] 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
279] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
280] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
281] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
282] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
283] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
284] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
285] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
286] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
287] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
288] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
289] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
290] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
291] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
292] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
293] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
294] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
295] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
296] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
297] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
298] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
299] 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
300] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
301] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
302] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
303] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
304] 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)
305] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
306] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
307] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
308] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
309] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
310] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
311] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
312] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
313] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
314] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
315] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
316] 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
317] 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.
318] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
319] 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.
320] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
321] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
322] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
323] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
324] 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)
325] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
326] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
327] 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.
328] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
329] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
330] 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)
331] 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)
332] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
333] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
334] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
335] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
336] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
337] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
338] 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
339] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
340] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
341] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
342] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
343] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
344] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
345] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
346] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
347] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
348] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
349] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
350] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
351] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
352] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
353] 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.
354] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
355] 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
356] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
357] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
358] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
359] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
360] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
361] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
362] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
363] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
364] 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).
365] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
366] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
367] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
368] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
369] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
370] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
371] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
372] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
373] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
374] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
375] 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.
376] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
377] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
378] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
379] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
380] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
381] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
382] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
383] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
384] 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
385] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
386] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
387] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
388] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
389] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
390] 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)
391] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
392] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
393] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
394] 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.
395] 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.
396] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
397] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
398] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
399] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
400] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
401] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
402] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
403] 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.
404] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
405] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
406] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
407] 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
408] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
409] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
410] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
411] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
412] 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.
413] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
414] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
415] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
416] 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
417] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
418] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
419] 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.
420] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
421] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
422] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
423] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
424] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
425] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
426] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
427] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
428] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
429] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
430] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
431] 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)
432] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
433] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
434] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
435] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
436] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
437] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
438] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
439] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
440] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
441] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
442] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
443] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
444] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
445] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
446] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
447] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
448] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
449] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
450] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
451] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
452] 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.
453] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
454] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
455] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
456] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
457] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
458] 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.
459] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
460] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
461] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
462] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
463] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
464] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
465] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
466] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
467] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
468] 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
469] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
470] 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
471] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
472] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
473] 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
474] 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)
475] 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.
476] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
477] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
478] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
479] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
480] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
481] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
482] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
483] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
484] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
485] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
486] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
487] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
488] 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
489] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
490] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
491] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
492] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
493] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
494] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
495] 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.
496] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
497] 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.
498] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
499] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
500] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
501] 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
502] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
503] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
504] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
505] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
506] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
507] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
508] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
509] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
510] 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.
511] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
512] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
513] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
514] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
515] 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
516] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
517] 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.
518] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
519] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
520] 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.
521] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
522] 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
523] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
524] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
525] 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
526] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
527] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
528] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
529] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
530] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
531] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
532] 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
533] 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.
534] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
535] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
536] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
537] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
538] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
539] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
540] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
541] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
542] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
543] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
544] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
545] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
546] 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.
547] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
548] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
549] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
550] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
551] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
552] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
553] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
554] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
555] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
556] 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.
557] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
558] 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.
559] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
560] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
561] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
562] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
563] 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.
564] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
565] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
566] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
567] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
568] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
569] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
570] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
571] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
572] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
573] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
574] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
575] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
576] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
577] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
578] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
579] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
580] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
581] 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.
582] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
583] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
584] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
585] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
586] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
587] 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.
588] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
589] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
590] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
591] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
592] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
593] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
594] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
595] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
596] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
597] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
598] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
599] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
600] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.