Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
2] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
3] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
4] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
5] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
6] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
7] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
8] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
9] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
10] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
11] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
12] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
13] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
14] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
15] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
16] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
17] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
18] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
19] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
20] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
21] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
22] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
23] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
24] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
25] 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
26] 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.
27] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
28] 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)
29] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
30] 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.
31] 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
32] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
33] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
34] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
35] 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)
36] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
37] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
38] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
39] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
40] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
41] 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
42] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
43] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
44] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
45] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
46] 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.
47] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
48] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
49] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
50] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
51] 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.
52] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
53] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
54] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
55] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
56] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
57] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
58] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
59] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
60] 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)
61] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
62] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
63] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
64] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
65] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
66] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
67] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
68] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
69] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
70] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
71] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
72] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
73] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
74] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
75] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
76] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
77] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
78] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
79] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
80] 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
81] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
82] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
83] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
84] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
85] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
86] 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).
87] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
88] 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
89] 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.
90] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
91] 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.
92] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
93] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
94] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
95] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
96] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
97] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
98] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
99] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
100] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
101] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
102] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
103] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
104] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
105] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
106] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
107] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
108] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
109] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
110] 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
111] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
112] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
113] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
114] 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
115] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
116] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
117] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
118] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
119] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
120] 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
121] 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.
122] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
123] 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.
124] 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
125] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
126] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
127] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
128] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
129] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
130] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
131] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
132] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
133] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
134] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
135] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
136] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
137] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
138] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
139] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
140] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
141] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
142] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
143] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
144] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
145] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
146] 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
147] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
148] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
149] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
150] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
151] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
152] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
153] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
154] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
155] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
156] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
157] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
158] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
159] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
160] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
161] 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)
162] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
163] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
164] 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.
165] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
166] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
167] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
168] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
169] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
170] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
171] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
172] 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
173] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
174] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
175] 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.
176] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
177] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
178] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
179] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
180] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
181] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
182] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
183] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
184] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
185] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
186] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
187] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
188] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
189] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
190] 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.
191] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
192] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
193] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
194] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
195] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
196] 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
197] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
198] 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
199] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
200] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
201] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
202] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
203] 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)
204] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
205] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
206] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
207] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
208] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
209] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
210] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
211] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
212] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
213] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
214] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
215] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
216] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
217] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
218] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
219] 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.
220] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
221] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
222] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
223] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
224] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
225] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
226] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
227] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
228] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
229] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
230] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
231] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
232] 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).
233] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
234] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
235] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
236] 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).
237] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
238] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
239] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
240] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
241] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
242] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
243] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
244] 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
245] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
246] 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
247] 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)
248] 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.
249] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
250] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
251] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
252] 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
253] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
254] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
255] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
256] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
257] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
258] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
259] 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
260] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
261] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
262] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
263] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
264] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
265] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
266] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
267] 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
268] 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.
269] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
270] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
271] 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.
272] 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)
273] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
274] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
275] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
276] 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)
277] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
278] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
279] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
280] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
281] 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.
282] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
283] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
284] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
285] 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.
286] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
287] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
288] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
289] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
290] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
291] 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.
292] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
293] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
294] 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
295] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
296] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
297] 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)
298] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
299] 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.
300] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
301] 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)
302] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
303] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
304] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
305] 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.
306] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
307] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
308] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
309] 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
310] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
311] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
312] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
313] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
314] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
315] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
316] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
317] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
318] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
319] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
320] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
321] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
322] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
323] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
324] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
325] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
326] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
327] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
328] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
329] 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)
330] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
331] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
332] 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.
333] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
334] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
335] 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.
336] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
337] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
338] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
339] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
340] 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
341] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
342] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
343] 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.
344] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
345] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
346] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
347] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
348] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
349] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
350] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
351] 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.
352] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
353] 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.
354] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
355] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
356] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
357] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
358] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
359] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
360] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
361] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
362] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
363] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
364] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
365] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
366] 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.
367] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
368] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
369] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
370] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
371] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
372] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
373] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
374] 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.
375] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
376] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
377] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
378] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
379] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
380] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
381] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
382] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
383] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
384] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
385] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
386] 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.
387] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
388] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
389] 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.
390] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
391] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
392] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
393] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
394] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
395] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
396] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
397] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
398] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
399] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
400] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
401] 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)
402] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
403] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
404] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
405] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
406] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
407] 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
408] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
409] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
410] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
411] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
412] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
413] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
414] 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.
415] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
416] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
417] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
418] 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.
419] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
420] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
421] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
422] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
423] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
424] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
425] 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)
426] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
427] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
428] 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.
429] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
430] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
431] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
432] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
433] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
434] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
435] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
436] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
437] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
438] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
439] 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
440] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
441] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
442] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
443] 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
444] 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
445] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
446] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
447] 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.
448] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
449] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
450] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
451] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
452] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
453] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
454] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
455] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
456] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
457] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
458] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
459] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
460] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
461] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
462] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
463] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
464] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
465] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
466] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
467] 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.
468] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
469] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
470] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
471] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
472] 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.
473] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
474] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
475] 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.
476] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
477] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
478] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
479] 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
480] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
481] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
482] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
483] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
484] 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.
485] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
486] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
487] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
488] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
489] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
490] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
491] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
492] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
493] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
494] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
495] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
496] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
497] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
498] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
499] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
500] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
501] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
502] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
503] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
504] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
505] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
506] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
507] 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.
508] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
509] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
510] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] 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
512] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
513] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
514] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
515] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
516] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
517] 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)
518] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
519] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
520] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
521] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
522] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
523] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
524] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
525] 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
526] 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.
527] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
528] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
529] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
530] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
531] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
532] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
533] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
534] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
535] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
536] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
537] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
538] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
539] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
540] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
541] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
542] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
543] 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
544] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
545] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
546] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
547] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
548] 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.
549] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
550] 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
551] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
552] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
553] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
554] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
555] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
556] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
557] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
558] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
559] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
560] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
561] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
562] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
563] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
564] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
565] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
566] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
567] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
568] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
569] 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
570] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
571] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
572] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
573] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
574] 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
575] 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
576] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
577] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
578] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
579] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
580] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
581] 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
582] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
583] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
584] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
585] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
586] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
587] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
588] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
589] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
590] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
591] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
592] 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.
593] 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)
594] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
595] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
596] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
597] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
598] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
599] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
600] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.