Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
2] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
3] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
4] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
5] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
6] 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.
7] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
8] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
9] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
10] 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)
11] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
12] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
13] 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]
14] 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.
15] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
16] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
17] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
18] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
19] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
20] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
21] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
22] 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
23] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
24] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
25] 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.
26] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
27] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
28] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
29] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
30] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
31] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
32] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
33] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
34] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
35] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
36] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
37] 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
38] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
39] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
40] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
41] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
42] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
43] 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
44] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
45] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
46] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
47] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
48] 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
49] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
50] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
51] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
52] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
53] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
54] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
55] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
56] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
57] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
58] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
59] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
60] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
61] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
62] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
63] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
64] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
65] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
66] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
67] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
68] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
69] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
70] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
71] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
72] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
73] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
74] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
75] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
76] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
77] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
78] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
79] 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]
80] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
81] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
82] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
83] 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)
84] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
85] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
86] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
87] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
88] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
89] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
90] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
91] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
92] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
93] 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
94] 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.
95] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
96] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
97] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
98] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
99] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
100] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
101] 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
102] 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.
103] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
104] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
105] 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
106] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
107] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
108] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
109] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
110] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
111] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
112] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
113] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
114] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
115] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
116] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
117] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
118] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
119] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
120] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
121] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
122] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
123] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
124] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
125] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
126] 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.
127] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
128] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
129] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
130] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
131] 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.
132] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
133] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
134] 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.
135] 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.
136] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
137] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
138] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
139] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
140] 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
141] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
142] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
143] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
144] 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.
145] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
146] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
147] 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.
148] 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.
149] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
150] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
151] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
152] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
153] 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
154] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
155] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
156] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
157] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
158] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
159] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
160] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
161] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
162] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
163] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
164] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
165] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
166] 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
167] 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.
168] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
169] 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)
170] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
171] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
172] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
173] 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
174] 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.
175] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
176] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
177] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
178] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
179] 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.
180] 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.
181] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
182] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
183] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
184] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
185] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
186] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
187] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
188] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
189] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
190] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
191] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
192] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
193] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
194] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
195] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
196] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
197] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
198] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
199] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
200] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
201] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
202] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
203] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
204] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
205] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
206] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
207] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
208] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
209] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
210] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
211] 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.
212] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
213] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
214] 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
215] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
216] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
217] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
218] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
219] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
220] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
221] 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.
222] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
223] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
224] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
225] 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.
226] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
227] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
228] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
229] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
230] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
231] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
232] Commonsense is not so common.
233] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
234] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
235] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
236] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
237] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
238] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
239] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
240] 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.
241] 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
242] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
243] 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
244] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
245] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
246] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
247] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
248] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
249] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
250] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
251] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
252] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
253] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
254] 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
255] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
256] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
257] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
258] 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.
259] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
260] 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)
261] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
262] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
263] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
264] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
265] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
266] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
267] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
268] 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)
269] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
270] 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)
271] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
272] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
273] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
274] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
275] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
276] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
277] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
278] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
279] 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.
280] 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.
281] 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.
282] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
283] 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.
284] 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
285] 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
286] 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
287] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
288] 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.
289] 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
290] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
291] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
292] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
293] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
294] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
295] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
296] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
297] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
298] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
299] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
300] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
301] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
302] 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
303] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
304] 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
305] 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.
306] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
307] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
308] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
309] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
310] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
311] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
312] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
313] 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.
314] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
315] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
316] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
317] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
318] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
319] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
320] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
321] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
322] 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.
323] 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.
324] 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
325] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
326] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
327] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
328] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
329] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
330] 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).
331] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
332] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
333] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
334] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
335] 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
336] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
337] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
338] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
339] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
340] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
341] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
342] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
343] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
344] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
345] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
346] 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
347] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
348] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
349] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
350] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
351] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
352] 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
353] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
354] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
355] 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
356] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
357] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
358] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
359] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
360] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
361] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
362] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
363] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
364] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
365] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
366] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
367] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
368] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
369] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
370] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
371] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
372] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
373] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
374] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
376] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
377] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
378] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
379] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
380] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
381] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
382] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
383] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
384] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
385] 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
386] 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.
387] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
388] 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.
389] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
390] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
391] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
392] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
393] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
394] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
395] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
396] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
397] 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
398] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
399] 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
400] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
401] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
402] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
403] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
404] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
405] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
406] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
407] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
408] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
409] 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
410] 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)
411] 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.
412] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
413] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
414] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
415] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
416] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
417] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
418] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
419] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
420] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
421] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
422] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
423] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
424] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
425] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
426] 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
427] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
428] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
429] 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
430] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
431] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
432] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
433] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
434] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
435] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
436] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
437] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
438] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
439] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
440] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
441] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
442] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
443] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
444] 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
445] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
446] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
447] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
448] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
449] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
450] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
451] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
452] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
453] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
454] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
455] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
456] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
457] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
458] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
459] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
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] 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)
462] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
463] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
465] 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
466] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
467] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
468] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
469] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
470] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
471] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
472] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
473] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
474] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
475] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
476] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
477] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
478] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
479] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
480] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
481] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
482] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
483] 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
484] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
485] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
486] 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
487] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
488] 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)
489] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
490] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
491] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
492] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
493] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
494] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
495] 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.
496] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
497] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
498] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
499] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
500] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
501] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
502] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
503] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
504] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
505] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
506] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
507] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
508] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
509] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
510] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
511] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
512] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
513] 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.
514] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
515] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
516] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
517] 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.
518] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
519] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
520] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
521] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
522] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
523] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
524] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
525] 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.
526] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
527] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
528] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
529] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
530] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
531] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
532] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
533] 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)
534] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
535] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
536] 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.
537] 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)
538] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
539] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
540] 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.
541] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
542] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
543] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
544] 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
545] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
546] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
547] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
548] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
549] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
550] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
551] 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)
552] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
553] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
554] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
555] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
556] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
557] 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
558] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
559] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
560] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
561] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
562] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
563] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
564] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
565] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
566] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
567] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
568] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
569] 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)
570] 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)
571] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
572] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
573] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
574] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
575] 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
576] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
577] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
578] 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.
579] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
580] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
581] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
582] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
583] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
584] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
585] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
586] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
587] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
588] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
589] 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 .
590] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
591] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
592] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
593] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
594] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
595] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
596] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
597] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
598] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
599] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
600] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes