Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
2] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
3] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
4] 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.
5] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
6] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
7] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
8] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
9] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
10] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
11] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
12] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
13] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
14] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
15] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
16] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
17] 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).
18] 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.
19] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
20] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
21] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
22] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
23] 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)
24] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
25] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
26] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
27] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
28] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
29] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
30] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
31] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
32] 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
33] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
34] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
35] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
36] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
37] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
39] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
40] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
41] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
42] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
43] 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
44] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
45] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
46] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
47] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
48] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
49] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
50] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
51] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
52] 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
53] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
54] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
55] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
56] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
57] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
58] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
59] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
60] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
61] 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.
62] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
63] 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)
64] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
65] 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)
66] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
67] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
68] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
69] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
70] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
71] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
72] 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.
73] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
74] 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.
75] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
76] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
77] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
78] 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.
79] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
80] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
81] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
82] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
83] 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
84] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
85] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
86] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
87] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
88] 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
89] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
90] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
91] 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.
92] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
93] 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.
94] 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
95] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
96] 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.
97] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
98] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
99] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
100] 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.
101] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
102] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
103] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
104] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
105] 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
106] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
107] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
108] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
109] 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.
110] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
111] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
112] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
113] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
114] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
115] 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
116] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
117] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
118] 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 .
119] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
120] 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.
121] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
122] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
123] 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
124] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
125] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
126] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
127] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
128] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
129] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
130] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
131] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
132] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
133] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
134] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
135] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
136] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
137] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
138] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
139] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
140] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
141] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
142] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
143] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
144] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
145] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
146] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
147] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
148] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
149] 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
150] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
151] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
152] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
153] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
154] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
155] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
156] 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
157] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
158] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
159] 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)
160] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
161] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
162] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
163] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
164] 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.
165] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
166] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
167] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
168] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
169] 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.
170] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
171] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
172] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
173] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
174] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
175] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
176] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
177] 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.
178] 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
179] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
180] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
181] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
182] 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.”
183] 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.
184] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
185] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
186] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
187] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
189] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
190] 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
191] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
192] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
193] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
194] 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.
195] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
196] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
197] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
198] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
199] 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
200] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
201] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
202] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
203] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
204] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
205] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
206] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
207] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
208] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
209] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
210] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
211] 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.
212] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
213] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
214] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
215] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
216] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
217] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
218] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
219] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
220] 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.
221] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
222] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
223] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
224] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
225] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
227] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
228] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
229] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
230] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
231] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
232] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
233] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
234] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
235] 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.
236] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
237] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
238] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
239] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
240] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
241] 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
242] 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
243] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
244] 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)
245] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
246] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
247] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
248] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
249] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
250] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
251] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
252] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
253] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
254] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
255] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
256] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
257] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
258] 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)
259] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
260] 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.
261] 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)
262] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
263] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
264] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
265] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
266] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
267] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
268] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
269] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
270] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
271] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
272] 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.
273] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
274] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
275] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
276] 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.
277] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
278] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
279] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
280] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
281] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
282] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
283] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
284] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
285] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
286] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
287] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
288] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
289] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
290] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
291] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
292] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
293] 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.
294] 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.
295] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
296] 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).
297] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
298] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
299] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
300] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
301] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
302] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
303] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
304] 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.
305] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
306] 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)
307] 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.
308] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
309] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
310] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
311] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
312] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
313] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
314] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
315] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
316] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
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 are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
319] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
320] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
321] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
322] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
323] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
324] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
325] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
326] 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)
327] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
328] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
329] 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.
330] 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.
331] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
332] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
333] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
334] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
335] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
336] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
337] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
338] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
339] 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
340] 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.
341] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
342] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
343] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
344] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
345] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
346] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
347] 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
348] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
349] 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
350] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
351] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
352] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
353] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
354] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
355] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
356] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
357] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
358] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
359] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
360] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
361] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
362] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
363] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
364] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
365] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
366] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
367] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
368] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
369] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
370] 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)
371] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
372] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
373] 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
374] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
375] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
376] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
377] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
378] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
379] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
380] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
381] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
382] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
383] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
384] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
385] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
386] 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
387] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
388] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
389] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
390] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
391] 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.
392] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
393] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
394] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
395] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
396] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
397] 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
398] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
399] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
400] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
401] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
402] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
403] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
404] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
405] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
406] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
407] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
408] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
409] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
410] 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.
411] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
412] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
413] 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.
414] 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
415] 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.
416] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
417] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
418] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
419] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
420] 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
421] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
422] 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
423] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
424] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
425] 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.
426] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
427] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
428] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
429] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
430] 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.
431] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
432] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
433] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
434] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
435] 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.
436] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
437] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
438] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
439] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
440] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
441] 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.
442] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
443] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
444] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
445] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
446] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
447] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
448] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
449] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
450] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
451] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
452] 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)
453] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
454] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
455] 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.
456] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
457] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
458] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
459] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
460] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
461] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
462] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
463] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
464] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
465] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
466] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
467] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
469] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
470] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
471] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
472] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
473] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
474] 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.
475] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
476] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
477] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
478] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
479] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
480] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
481] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
482] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
483] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
484] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
485] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
486] 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.
487] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
488] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
489] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
490] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
491] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
492] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
493] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
494] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
495] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
496] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
497] Commonsense is not so common.
498] 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
499] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
500] 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
501] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
502] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
503] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
504] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
505] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
506] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
507] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
508] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
509] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
510] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
511] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
512] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
513] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
514] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
515] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
516] 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.
517] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
518] 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
519] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
520] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
521] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
522] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
523] 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
524] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
525] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
526] 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
527] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
528] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
529] 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 .
530] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
531] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
532] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
533] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
534] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
535] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
536] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
537] 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
538] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
539] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
540] 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
541] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
542] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
543] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
544] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
545] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
546] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
547] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
548] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
549] 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.
550] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
551] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
552] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
553] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
554] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
555] 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]
556] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
557] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
558] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
559] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
560] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
561] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
562] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
563] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
564] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
565] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
566] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
567] 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.
568] 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).
569] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
570] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
571] 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)
572] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
573] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
574] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
575] 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
576] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
577] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
578] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
579] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
580] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
581] 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
582] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
583] 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.
584] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
585] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
586] 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)
587] 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)
588] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
589] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
590] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
591] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
592] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
593] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
594] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
595] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
596] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
597] 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
598] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
599] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
600] 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