Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
2] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
3] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
4] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
5] 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.
6] 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.
7] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
8] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
9] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
10] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
11] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
12] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
13] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
14] 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
15] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
16] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
17] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
18] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
19] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
20] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
21] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
22] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
23] 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)
24] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
25] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
26] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
27] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
28] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
29] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
30] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
31] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
32] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
33] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
34] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
35] 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
36] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
37] 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
38] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
39] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
40] 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]
41] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
42] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
43] 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
44] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
45] 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.
46] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
47] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
48] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
49] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
50] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
51] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
52] 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.
53] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
54] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
55] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
56] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
57] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
58] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
59] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
60] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
61] 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.
62] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
63] 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.
64] 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)
65] 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.
66] 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.
67] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
68] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
69] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
70] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
71] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
72] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
73] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
74] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
75] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
76] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
77] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
78] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
79] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
80] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
81] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
82] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
83] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
84] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
85] 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.
86] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
87] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
88] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
89] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
90] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
91] 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
92] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
93] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
94] 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
95] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
96] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
97] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
98] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
99] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
100] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
101] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
102] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
103] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
104] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
105] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
106] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
107] 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
108] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
109] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
110] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
111] 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.
112] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
113] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
114] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
115] 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
116] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
117] 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.
118] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
119] 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)
120] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
121] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
122] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
123] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
124] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
125] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
126] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
127] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
128] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
129] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
130] 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]
131] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
132] 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
133] 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)
134] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
135] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
136] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
137] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
138] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
139] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
140] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
141] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
142] 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
143] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
144] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
145] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
146] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
147] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
148] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
149] 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.
150] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
151] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
152] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
153] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
154] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
155] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
156] 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.
157] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
158] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
159] 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
160] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
161] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
162] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
163] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
164] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
165] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
166] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
167] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
168] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
169] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
170] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
171] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
172] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
173] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
174] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
175] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
176] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
177] 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)
178] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
179] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
180] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
181] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
182] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
183] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
184] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
185] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
186] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
187] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
188] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
189] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
190] 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
191] 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
192] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
193] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
194] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
195] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
196] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
197] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
198] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
199] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
200] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
201] 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.
202] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
203] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
204] 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.”
205] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
206] 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
207] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
208] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
209] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
210] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
211] 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)
212] 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
213] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
214] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
215] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
216] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
217] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
218] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
219] 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
220] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
221] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
222] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
223] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
224] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
225] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
226] 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
227] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
228] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
229] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
230] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
231] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
232] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
233] 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).
234] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
235] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
236] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
237] 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
238] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
239] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
240] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
241] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
242] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
243] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
244] 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.
245] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
246] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
247] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
248] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
249] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
250] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
251] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
252] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
253] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
254] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
255] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
256] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
257] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
258] 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.
259] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
260] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
261] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
262] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
263] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
264] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
265] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
266] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
267] 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.
268] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
269] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
270] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
271] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
272] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
273] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
274] 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.
275] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
276] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
277] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
278] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
279] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
280] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
281] 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
282] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
283] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
284] 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
285] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
286] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
287] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
288] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
289] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
290] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
291] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
292] 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
293] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
294] 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)
295] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
296] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
297] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
298] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
299] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
300] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
301] 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
302] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
303] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
304] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
305] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
306] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
307] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
308] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
309] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
310] 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.
311] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
312] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
313] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
314] 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.
315] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
316] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
317] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
318] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
319] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
320] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
321] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
322] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
323] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
324] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
325] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
326] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
327] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
328] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
329] 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
330] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
331] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
332] 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.
333] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
334] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
335] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
336] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
337] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
338] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
339] 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.
340] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
341] 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
342] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
343] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
344] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
345] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
346] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
347] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
348] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
349] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
350] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
351] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
352] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
353] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
354] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
355] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
356] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
357] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
358] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
359] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
360] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
361] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
362] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
363] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
364] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
365] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
366] 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).
367] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
368] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
369] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
370] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
371] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
372] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
373] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
374] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
375] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
376] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
377] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
378] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
379] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
380] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
381] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
382] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
383] 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.
384] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
385] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
386] 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
387] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
388] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
389] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
390] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
391] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
392] 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)
393] 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
394] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
395] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
396] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
397] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
398] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
399] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
400] 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.
401] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
402] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
403] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
404] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
405] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
406] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
407] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
408] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
409] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
410] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
411] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
412] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
413] 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)
414] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
415] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
416] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
417] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
418] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
419] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
420] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
421] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
422] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
423] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
424] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
425] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
426] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
427] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
428] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
429] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
430] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
431] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
432] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
433] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
434] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] 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.
436] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
437] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
438] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
439] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
440] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
441] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
442] 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.
443] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
444] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
445] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
446] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
447] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
448] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
449] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
450] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
451] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
452] 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
453] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
454] 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.
455] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
456] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
457] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
458] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
459] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
460] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
461] 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
462] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
463] 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
464] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
465] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
466] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
467] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
468] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
469] 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
470] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
471] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
472] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
473] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
474] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
475] 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
476] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
477] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
478] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
479] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
480] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
481] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
482] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
483] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
484] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
485] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
486] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
487] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
488] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
489] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
490] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
491] 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.
492] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
493] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
494] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
495] 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.
496] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
497] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
498] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
499] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
500] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
501] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
502] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
503] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
504] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
505] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
506] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
507] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
508] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
509] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
510] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
511] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
512] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
513] 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)
514] 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.
515] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
516] 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)
517] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
518] 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.
519] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
520] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
521] 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)
522] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
523] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
524] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
525] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
526] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
527] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
528] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
529] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
530] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
531] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
532] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
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] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
535] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
536] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
537] 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)
538] 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
539] 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
540] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
541] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
542] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
543] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
544] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
545] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
546] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
547] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
548] 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
549] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
550] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
551] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
552] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
553] 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
554] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
555] 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.
556] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
557] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
558] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
559] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
560] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
561] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
562] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
563] 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).
564] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
565] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
566] 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.
567] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
568] 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)
569] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
570] 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
571] 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
572] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
573] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
574] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
575] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
576] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
577] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
578] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
579] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
580] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
581] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
582] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
583] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
584] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
585] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
586] 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
587] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
588] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
589] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
590] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
591] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
592] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
593] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
594] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
595] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
596] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
597] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
598] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
599] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
600] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.