Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
2] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
3] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
4] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
5] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
6] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
7] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
8] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
9] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
10] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
11] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
12] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
13] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
14] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
15] 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.
16] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
17] 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.
18] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
19] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
20] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
21] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
22] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
23] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
25] 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)
26] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
27] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
28] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
29] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
30] 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
31] 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
32] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
33] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
34] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
35] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
36] 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
37] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
38] 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
39] 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)
40] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
41] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
42] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
43] 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.
44] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
45] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
46] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
47] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
48] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
49] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
50] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
51] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
52] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
53] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
54] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
55] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
56] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
57] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
58] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
59] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
60] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
61] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
62] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
63] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
64] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
65] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
66] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
67] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
68] 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.
69] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
70] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
71] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
72] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
73] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
74] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
75] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
76] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
77] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
78] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
79] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
80] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
81] 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.
82] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
83] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
84] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
85] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
86] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
87] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
88] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
89] 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)
90] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
91] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
92] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
93] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
94] 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.
95] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
96] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
97] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
98] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
99] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
100] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
101] 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.
102] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
103] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
104] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
105] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
106] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
107] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
108] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
109] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
110] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
111] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
112] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
113] 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
114] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
115] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
116] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
117] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
118] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
119] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
120] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
121] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
122] 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.
123] 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)
124] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
125] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
126] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
127] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
128] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
129] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
130] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
131] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
132] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
133] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
134] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
135] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
136] 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.
137] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
138] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
139] 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
140] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
141] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
142] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
143] 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.
144] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
145] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
146] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
147] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
148] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
149] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
150] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
151] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
152] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
153] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
154] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
155] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
156] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
157] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
158] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
159] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
160] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
161] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
162] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
163] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
164] 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
165] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
166] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
167] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
168] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
169] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
170] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
171] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
172] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
173] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
174] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
175] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
176] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
177] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
178] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
179] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
180] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
181] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
182] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
183] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
184] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
185] 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
186] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
187] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
188] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
189] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
190] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
191] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
192] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
193] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
194] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
195] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
196] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
197] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
198] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
199] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
200] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
201] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
202] 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
203] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
204] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
205] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
206] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
207] 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.
208] 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)
209] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
210] 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.
211] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
212] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
213] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
214] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
215] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
216] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
217] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
218] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
219] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
220] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
221] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
222] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
223] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
224] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
225] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
226] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
227] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
228] 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
229] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
230] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
231] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
232] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
233] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
234] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
235] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
236] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
237] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
238] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
239] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
240] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
241] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
242] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
243] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
244] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
245] 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
246] 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)
247] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
248] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
249] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
250] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
251] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
252] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
253] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
254] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
255] 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
256] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
257] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
258] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
259] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
260] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
261] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
262] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
263] 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
264] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
265] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
266] 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.
267] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
268] 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.
269] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
270] 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.
271] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
272] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
273] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
274] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
275] 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.
276] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
277] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
278] 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
279] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
280] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
281] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
282] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
283] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
284] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
285] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
286] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
287] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
288] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
289] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
290] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
291] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
292] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
293] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
294] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
295] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
296] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
297] 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.
298] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
299] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
300] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
301] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
302] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
303] 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
304] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
305] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
306] 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
307] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
308] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
309] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
310] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
311] 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
312] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
313] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
314] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
315] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
316] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
317] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
318] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
319] 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
320] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
321] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
322] 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.
323] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
324] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
325] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
326] 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.
327] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
328] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
329] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
330] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
331] 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
332] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
333] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
334] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
335] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
336] 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.
337] 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
338] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
339] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
340] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
341] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
342] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
343] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
344] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
345] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
346] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
347] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
348] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
349] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
350] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
351] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
352] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
353] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
354] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
355] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
356] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
357] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
358] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
359] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
360] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
361] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
362] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
363] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
364] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
365] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
366] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
367] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
368] 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
369] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
370] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
371] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
372] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
373] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
374] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
375] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
376] Commonsense is not so common.
377] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
378] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
379] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
380] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
381] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
382] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
383] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
384] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
385] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
386] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
387] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
388] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
389] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
390] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
391] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
392] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
393] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
394] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
395] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
396] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
397] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
398] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
399] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
400] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
401] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
402] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
403] 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)
404] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
405] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
406] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
407] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
408] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
409] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
410] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
411] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
412] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
413] 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 .
414] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
415] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
416] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
417] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
418] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
419] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
420] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
421] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
422] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
423] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
424] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
425] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
426] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
427] 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)
428] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
429] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
430] 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
431] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
432] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
433] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
434] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
435] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
436] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
437] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
438] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
439] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
440] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
441] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
442] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
443] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
444] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
445] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
446] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
447] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
448] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
449] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
450] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
451] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
452] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
453] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
454] 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.
455] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
456] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
457] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
458] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
459] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
460] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
461] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
462] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
463] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
464] 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
465] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
466] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
467] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
468] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
469] 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)
470] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
471] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
472] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
473] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
474] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
475] 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.
476] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
477] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
478] 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.
479] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
480] 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)
481] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
482] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
483] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
484] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
485] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
486] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
487] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
488] 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
489] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
490] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
491] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
492] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
493] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
494] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
495] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
496] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
497] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
498] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
499] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
500] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
501] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
502] 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)
503] 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.
504] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
505] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
506] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
507] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
508] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
509] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
510] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
511] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
512] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
513] 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
514] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
515] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
516] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
517] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
518] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
519] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
520] 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.”
521] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
522] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
523] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
524] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
525] 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
526] 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
527] 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
528] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
529] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
530] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
531] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
532] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
533] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
534] 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.
535] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
536] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
537] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
538] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
539] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
540] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
541] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
542] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
543] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
544] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
545] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
546] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
547] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
548] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
549] 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
550] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
551] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
552] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
553] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
554] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
555] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
556] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
557] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
558] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
559] 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)
560] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
561] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
562] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
563] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
564] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
565] 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.
566] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
567] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
568] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
569] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
570] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
571] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
572] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
573] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
574] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
575] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
576] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
577] 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.
578] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
579] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
580] 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)
581] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
582] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
583] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
584] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
585] 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.
586] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
587] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
588] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
589] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
590] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
591] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
592] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
593] 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)
594] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
595] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
596] 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.
597] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
598] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
599] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
600] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.