HOME
Full List
Insights
By Category
By People
Teachings of Jesus
Quotes
Quotations
Proverbs
Bible Quote Categories
Random Bible Quotes / Verses
100 Inspirational Bible Quotes
Inspirational & famous Quotations
1] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
2] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
3] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
4] 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.
5] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
6] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
7] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
8] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
9] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
10] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
11] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
12] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
13] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
14] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
15] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
16] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
17] 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)
18] 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.”
19] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
20] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
21] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
22] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
23] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
24] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
25] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
26] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
27] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
28] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
29] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
30] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
31] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
32] 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
33] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
34] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
35] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
36] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
37] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
38] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
39] 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
40] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
41] 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)
42] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
43] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
44] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
45] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
46] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
47] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
48] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
49] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
50] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
51] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
52] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
53] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
54] 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)
55] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
56] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
57] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
58] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
59] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
60] 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).
61] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
62] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
63] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
64] 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.
65] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
66] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
67] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
68] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
69] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
70] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
71] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
72] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
73] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
74] 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
75] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
76] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
77] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
78] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
79] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
80] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
81] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
82] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
83] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
84] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
85] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
86] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
87] 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 .
88] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
89] 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.
90] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
91] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
92] 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.
93] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
94] 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
95] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
96] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
97] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
98] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
99] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
100] 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
101] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
102] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
103] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
104] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
105] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
106] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
107] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
108] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
109] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
110] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
111] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
112] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
113] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
114] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
115] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
116] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
117] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
118] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
119] 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).
120] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
121] 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.
122] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
123] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
124] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
125] 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)
126] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
127] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
128] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
129] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
130] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
131] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
132] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
133] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
134] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
135] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
136] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
137] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
138] 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
139] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
140] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
141] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
142] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
143] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
144] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
145] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
146] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
147] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
148] 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)
149] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
150] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
151] 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.
152] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
153] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
154] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
155] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
156] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
157] 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.
158] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
159] 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
160] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
161] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
162] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
163] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
164] 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.
165] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
166] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
167] 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
168] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
169] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
170] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
171] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
172] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
173] 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
174] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
175] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
176] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
177] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
178] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
179] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
180] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
181] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
182] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
183] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
184] 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
185] Commonsense is not so common.
186] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
187] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
188] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
189] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
190] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
191] 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
192] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
193] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
194] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
195] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
196] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
197] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
198] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
199] 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
200] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
201] 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
202] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
203] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
204] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
205] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
206] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
207] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
208] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
209] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
210] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
211] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
212] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
213] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
214] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
215] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
216] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
217] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
218] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
219] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
220] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
221] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
222] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
223] 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)
224] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
225] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
226] 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
227] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
228] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
229] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
230] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
231] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
232] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
233] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
235] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
236] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
237] 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
238] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
239] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
240] 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.
241] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
242] 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.
243] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
244] 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)
245] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
246] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
247] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
248] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
249] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
250] 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
251] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
252] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
253] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
254] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
255] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
256] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
257] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
258] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
259] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
260] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
261] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
262] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
263] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
264] 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
265] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
266] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
267] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
268] 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.
269] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
270] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
271] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
272] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
273] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
274] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
275] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
276] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
277] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
278] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
279] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
280] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
281] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
282] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
283] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
284] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
285] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
286] 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
287] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
288] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
289] 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
290] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
291] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
292] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
293] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
294] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
295] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
296] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
297] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
298] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
299] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
300] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
301] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
302] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
303] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
304] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
305] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
306] 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.
307] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
308] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
309] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
310] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
311] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
312] 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.
313] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
314] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
315] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
316] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
317] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
318] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
319] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
320] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
321] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
322] 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
323] 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
324] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
325] 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
326] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
327] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
328] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
329] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
330] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
331] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
332] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
333] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
334] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
335] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
336] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
337] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
338] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
339] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
340] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
341] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
342] 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.
343] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
344] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
345] 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
346] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
347] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
348] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
349] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
350] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
351] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
352] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
353] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
354] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
355] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
356] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
357] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
358] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
359] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
360] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
361] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
362] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
363] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
364] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
365] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
366] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
367] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
368] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
369] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
370] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
371] 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)
372] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
373] 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
374] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
375] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
376] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
377] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
378] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
379] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
380] 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
381] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
382] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
383] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
384] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
385] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
386] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
387] 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
388] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
389] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
390] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
391] 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.
392] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
393] 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.
394] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
395] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
396] 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)
397] 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
398] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
399] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
400] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
401] 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)
402] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
403] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
404] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
405] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
406] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
407] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
408] Commonsense is not so common.
409] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
410] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
411] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
412] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
413] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
414] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
415] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
416] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
417] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
418] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
419] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
420] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
421] 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)
422] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
423] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
424] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
425] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
426] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
427] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
428] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
429] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
430] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
431] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
432] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
433] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
434] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
435] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
436] 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.
437] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
438] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
439] 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
440] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
441] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
442] 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
443] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
444] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
445] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
446] 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)
447] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
448] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
449] 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.
450] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
451] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
452] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
453] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
454] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
455] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
456] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
457] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
458] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
459] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
460] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
461] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
462] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
463] 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.
464] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
465] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
466] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
467] 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
468] 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
469] 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
470] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
471] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
472] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
473] 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
474] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
475] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
476] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
477] 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
478] 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.
479] 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.
480] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
481] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
482] 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.
483] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
484] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
485] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
486] 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)
487] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
488] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
489] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
490] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
491] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
492] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
493] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
494] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
495] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
496] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
497] 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).
498] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
499] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
500] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
501] 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]
502] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
503] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
504] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
505] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
506] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
507] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
508] 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).
509] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
510] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
511] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
512] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
513] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
514] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
515] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
516] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
517] 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.
518] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
519] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
520] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
521] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
522] 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.
523] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
524] 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)
525] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
526] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
527] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
528] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
529] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
530] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
531] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
532] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
533] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
534] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
535] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
536] 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.
537] 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)
538] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
539] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
540] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
541] 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
542] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
543] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
544] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
545] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
546] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
547] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
548] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
549] 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.”
550] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
551] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
552] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
553] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
554] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
555] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
556] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
557] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
558] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
559] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
560] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
561] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
562] 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.
563] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
564] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
565] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
566] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
567] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
568] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
569] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
570] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
571] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
572] 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
573] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
574] 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 .
575] 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
576] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
577] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
578] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
579] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
580] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
581] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
582] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
583] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
584] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
585] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
586] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
587] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
588] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
589] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
590] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
591] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
592] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
593] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
594] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
595] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
596] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
597] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
598] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
599] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
600] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan