Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
2] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
3] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
4] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
5] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
6] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
7] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
8] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
9] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
10] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
11] 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
12] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
13] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
14] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
15] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
16] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
17] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
18] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
19] 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
20] 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.
21] 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
22] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
23] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
24] 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.
25] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
26] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
27] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
28] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
29] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
30] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
31] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
32] 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)
33] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
34] 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
35] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
36] 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.
37] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
38] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
39] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
40] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
41] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
42] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
43] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
44] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
45] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
46] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
47] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
48] 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
49] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
50] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
51] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
52] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
53] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
54] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
55] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
56] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
57] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
58] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
59] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
60] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
61] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
62] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
63] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
64] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
65] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
66] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
67] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
68] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
69] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
70] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
71] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
72] 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.
73] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
74] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
75] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
76] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
77] 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)
78] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
79] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
80] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
81] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
82] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
83] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
84] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
85] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
86] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
87] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
88] 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
89] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
90] 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
91] 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
92] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
93] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
94] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
95] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
96] 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.
97] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
98] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
99] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
100] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
101] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
102] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
103] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
104] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
105] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
106] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
107] 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
108] 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.
109] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
110] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
111] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
112] 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
113] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
114] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
115] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
116] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
117] 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 .
118] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
119] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
120] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
121] 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.
122] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
123] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
124] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
125] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
126] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
127] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
128] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
129] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
130] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
131] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
132] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
133] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
134] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
135] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
136] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
137] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
138] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
139] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
140] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
141] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
142] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
143] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
144] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
145] 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.
146] 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.
147] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
148] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
149] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
150] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
151] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
152] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
153] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
154] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
155] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
156] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
157] 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
158] Commonsense is not so common.
159] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
160] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
161] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
162] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
163] 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
164] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
165] 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.
166] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
167] 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
168] 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
169] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
170] 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.
171] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
172] 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.
173] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
174] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
175] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
176] 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.
177] 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)
178] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
179] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
180] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
181] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
182] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
183] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
184] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
185] 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
186] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
187] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
188] 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.
189] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
190] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
191] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
192] 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)
193] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
194] 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.
195] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
196] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
197] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
198] 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.”
199] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
200] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
201] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
202] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
203] 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.
204] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
205] 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)
206] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
207] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
208] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
209] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
210] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
211] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
212] 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.
213] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
214] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
215] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
216] 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).
217] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
218] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
219] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
220] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
221] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
222] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
223] 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.
224] 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).
225] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
226] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
227] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
228] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
229] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
230] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
231] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
232] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
233] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
234] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
235] 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
236] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
237] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
238] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
239] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
240] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
241] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
242] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
243] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
244] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
245] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
246] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
247] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
248] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
249] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
250] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
251] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
252] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
253] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
254] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
255] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
256] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
257] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
258] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
259] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
260] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
261] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
262] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
263] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
264] 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
265] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
266] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
267] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
268] 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
269] 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)
270] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
271] 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.
272] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
273] 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
274] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
275] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
276] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
277] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
278] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
279] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
280] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
281] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
282] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
283] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
284] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
285] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
286] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
287] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
288] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
289] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
290] 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
291] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
292] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
293] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
294] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
295] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
296] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
297] 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
298] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
299] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
300] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
301] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
302] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
303] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
304] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
305] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
306] 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
307] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
308] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
309] 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
310] 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)
311] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
312] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
313] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
314] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
315] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
316] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
317] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
318] 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
319] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
320] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
321] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
322] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
323] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
324] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
325] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
326] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
327] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
328] 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
329] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
330] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
331] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
332] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
333] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
334] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
335] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
336] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
337] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
338] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
339] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
340] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
341] 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)
342] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
343] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
344] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
345] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
346] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
347] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
348] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
349] 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.
350] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
351] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
352] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
353] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
354] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
355] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
356] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
357] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
358] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
359] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
360] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
361] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
362] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
363] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
364] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
365] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
366] 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.
367] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
368] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
369] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
370] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
371] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
372] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
373] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
374] 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
375] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
376] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
377] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
378] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
379] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
380] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
381] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
382] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
383] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
384] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
385] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
386] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
387] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
388] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
389] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
390] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
391] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
392] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
393] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
394] 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.
395] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
396] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
397] 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
398] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
399] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
400] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
401] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
402] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
403] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
404] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
405] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
406] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
407] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
408] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
409] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
410] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
411] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
412] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
413] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
414] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
415] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
416] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
417] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
418] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
419] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
420] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
421] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
422] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
423] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
424] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
425] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
426] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
427] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
428] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
429] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
430] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
431] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
432] 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.
433] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
434] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
435] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
436] 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)
437] 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.
438] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
439] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
440] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
441] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
442] 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)
443] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
444] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
445] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
446] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
447] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
448] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
449] 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.
450] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
451] 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
452] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
453] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
454] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
455] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
456] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
457] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
458] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
459] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
460] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
461] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
462] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
463] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
464] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
465] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
466] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
467] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
468] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
469] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
470] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
471] 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).
472] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
473] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
474] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
475] 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.
476] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
477] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
478] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
479] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
480] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
481] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
482] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
483] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
484] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
485] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
486] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
487] 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.
488] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
489] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
490] 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
491] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
492] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
493] 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.
494] 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]
495] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
496] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
497] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
498] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
499] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
500] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
501] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
502] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
503] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
504] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
505] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
506] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
507] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
508] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
509] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
510] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
511] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
512] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
513] 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)
514] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
515] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
516] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
517] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
518] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
519] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
520] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
521] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
522] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
523] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
524] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
525] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
526] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
527] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
528] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
529] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
530] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
531] 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.”
532] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
533] 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.
534] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
535] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
536] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
537] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
538] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
539] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
540] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
541] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
542] 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)
543] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
544] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
545] 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.
546] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
547] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
548] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
549] 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.
550] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
551] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
552] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
553] 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.
554] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
555] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
556] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
557] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
558] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
559] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
560] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
561] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
562] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
563] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
564] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
565] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
566] 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
567] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
568] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
569] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
570] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
571] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
572] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
573] 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.
574] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
575] 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
576] 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)
577] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
578] 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
579] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
580] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
581] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
582] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
583] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
584] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
585] 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.
586] 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)
587] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
588] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
589] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
590] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
591] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
592] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
593] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
594] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
595] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
596] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
597] 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.
598] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
599] 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.
600] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift