Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
2] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
3] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
4] 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.
5] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
6] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
7] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
8] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
9] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
10] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
11] 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.
12] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
13] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
14] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
15] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
16] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
17] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
18] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
19] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
20] 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).
21] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
22] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
23] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
24] 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.
25] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
26] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
27] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
28] 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.
29] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
30] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
31] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
32] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
33] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
34] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
35] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
36] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
37] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
38] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
39] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
40] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
41] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
42] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
43] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
44] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
45] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
46] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
47] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
48] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
49] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
50] 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
51] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
52] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
53] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
54] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
55] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
56] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
57] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
58] 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.
59] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
60] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
61] 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
62] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
63] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
64] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
65] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
66] 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
67] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
68] 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.
69] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
70] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
71] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
72] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
73] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
74] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
75] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
76] 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
77] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
78] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
79] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
80] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
81] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
82] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
83] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
84] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
85] 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.
86] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
87] 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)
88] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
89] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
90] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
91] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
92] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
93] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
94] 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.
95] 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)
96] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
97] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
98] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
99] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
100] 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)
101] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
102] 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.
103] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
104] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
105] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
106] 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.
107] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
108] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
109] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
110] 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).
111] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
112] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
113] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
114] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
115] 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
116] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
117] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
118] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
119] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
120] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
121] 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.
122] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
123] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
124] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
125] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
126] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
127] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
128] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
129] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
130] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
131] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
132] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
133] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
134] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
135] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
136] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
137] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
138] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
139] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
140] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
141] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
142] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
143] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
144] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
145] 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
146] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
147] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
148] 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
149] 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.
150] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
151] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
152] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
153] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
154] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
155] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
156] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
157] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
158] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
159] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
160] 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
161] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
162] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
163] 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
164] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
165] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
166] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
167] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
168] 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.
169] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
170] 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
171] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
172] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
173] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
174] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
175] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
176] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
177] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
178] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
179] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
180] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
181] 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)
182] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
183] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
184] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
185] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
186] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
187] 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.
188] 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
189] 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.
190] 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.
191] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
192] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
193] 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
194] 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)
195] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
196] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
197] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
198] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
199] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
200] 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.
201] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
202] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
203] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
204] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
205] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
206] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
207] 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
208] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
209] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
210] 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.
211] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
212] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
213] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
214] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
215] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
216] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
217] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
218] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
219] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
220] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
221] 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.
222] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
223] 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
224] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
225] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
226] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
227] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
228] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
229] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
230] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
231] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
232] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
233] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
234] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
235] Commonsense is not so common.
236] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
237] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
238] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
239] 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
240] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
242] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
243] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
244] 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.
245] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
246] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
247] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
248] 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.
249] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
250] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
251] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
252] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
253] 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
254] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
255] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
256] 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)
257] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
258] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
259] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
260] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
261] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
262] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
263] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
264] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
265] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
266] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
267] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
268] 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
269] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
270] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
271] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
272] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
273] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
274] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
275] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
276] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
277] 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.
278] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
279] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
280] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
281] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
282] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
283] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
284] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
285] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
286] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
287] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
288] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
289] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
290] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
291] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
292] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
293] 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.
294] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
295] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
296] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
297] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
298] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
299] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
300] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
301] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
302] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
303] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
304] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
305] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
306] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
307] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
308] 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)
309] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
310] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
311] 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
312] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
313] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
314] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
315] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
316] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
317] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
318] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
319] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
320] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
321] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
322] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
323] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
324] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
325] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
326] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
327] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
328] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
329] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
330] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
331] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
332] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
333] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
334] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
335] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
336] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
337] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
338] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
339] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
340] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
341] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
342] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
343] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
344] 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.
345] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
346] 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
347] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
348] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
349] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
350] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
351] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
352] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
353] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
354] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
355] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
356] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
357] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
358] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
359] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
360] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
361] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
362] 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)
363] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
364] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
365] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
366] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
367] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
368] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
369] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
370] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
371] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
372] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
373] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
374] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
375] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
376] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
377] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
378] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
379] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
380] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
381] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
382] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
383] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
384] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
385] 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.
386] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
387] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
388] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
389] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
390] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
391] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
392] 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
393] 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.
394] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
395] 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.
396] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
397] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
398] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
399] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
400] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
401] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
402] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
403] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
404] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
405] 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.”
406] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
407] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
408] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
409] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
410] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
411] 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
412] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
413] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
414] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
415] 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
416] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
417] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
418] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
419] 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.
420] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
421] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
422] 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.
423] 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
424] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
425] 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
426] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
427] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
428] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
429] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
430] 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]
431] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
432] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
433] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
434] 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
435] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
436] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
437] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
438] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
439] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
440] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
441] 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.
442] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
443] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
444] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
445] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
446] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
447] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
448] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
449] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
450] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
451] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
452] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
453] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
454] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
455] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
456] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
457] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
458] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
459] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
460] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
461] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
462] 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.
463] 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)
464] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
465] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
466] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
467] 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.
468] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
469] 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.
470] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
471] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
472] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
473] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
474] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
475] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
476] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
477] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
478] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
479] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
480] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
481] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
482] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
483] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
484] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
485] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
486] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
487] 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
488] 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)
489] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
490] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
491] 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
492] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
493] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
494] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
495] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
496] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
497] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
498] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
499] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
500] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
501] 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.
502] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
503] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
504] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
505] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
506] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
507] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
508] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
509] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
510] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
511] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
512] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
513] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
514] 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.
515] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
516] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
517] 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.
518] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
519] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
520] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
521] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
522] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
523] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
524] 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
525] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
526] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
527] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
528] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
529] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
530] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
531] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
532] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
533] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
534] 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
535] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
536] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
537] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
538] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
539] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
540] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
541] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
542] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
543] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
544] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
545] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
546] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
547] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
548] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
549] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
550] 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
551] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
552] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
553] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
554] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
555] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
556] 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.
557] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
558] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
559] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
560] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
561] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
562] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
563] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
564] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
565] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
566] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
567] 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.
568] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
569] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
570] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
571] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
572] 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.
573] 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)
574] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
575] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
576] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
577] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
578] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
579] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
580] 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
581] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
582] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
583] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
584] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
585] 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
586] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
587] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
588] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
589] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
590] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
591] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
592] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
593] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
594] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
595] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
596] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
597] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
598] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
599] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
600] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.