Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
3] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
4] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
5] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
6] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
7] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
8] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
9] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
10] 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)
11] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
12] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
13] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
14] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
15] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
16] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
17] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
18] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
19] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
20] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
21] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
22] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
23] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
24] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
25] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
26] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
27] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
28] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
29] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
30] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
31] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
32] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
33] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
34] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
35] 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.
36] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
37] 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
38] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
39] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
40] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
41] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
42] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
43] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
44] 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
45] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
46] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
47] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
48] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
49] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
50] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
51] 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.
52] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
53] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
54] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
55] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
56] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
57] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
58] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
59] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
60] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
61] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
62] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
63] 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.
64] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
65] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
66] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
67] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
68] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
69] 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.
70] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
71] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
72] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
73] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
74] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
75] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
76] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
77] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
78] 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.
79] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
80] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
81] 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.
82] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
83] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
84] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
85] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
86] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
87] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
88] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
89] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
90] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
91] 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.
92] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
93] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
94] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
95] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
96] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
97] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
98] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
99] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
100] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
101] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
102] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
103] 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
104] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
105] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
106] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
107] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
108] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
109] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
110] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
111] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
112] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
113] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
114] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
115] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
116] 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
117] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
118] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
119] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
120] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
121] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
122] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
123] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
124] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
125] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
126] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
127] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
128] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
129] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
130] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
131] 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)
132] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
133] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
134] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
135] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
136] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
137] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
138] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
139] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
140] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
141] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
142] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
143] 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
144] 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
145] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
146] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
147] 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
148] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
149] 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
150] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
151] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
152] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
153] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
154] 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.
155] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
156] 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
157] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
158] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
159] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
160] 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.
161] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
162] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
163] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
164] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
165] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
166] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
167] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
168] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
169] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
170] 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.
171] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
172] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
173] 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).
174] 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.
175] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
176] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
177] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
178] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
179] 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.
180] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
181] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
182] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
183] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
184] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
185] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
186] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
187] 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.
188] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
189] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
190] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
191] 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.
192] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
193] 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.
194] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
195] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
196] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
197] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
198] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
199] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
200] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
201] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
202] 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.
203] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
204] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
205] 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.
206] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
207] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
208] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
209] 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)
210] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
211] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
212] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
213] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
214] 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)
215] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
216] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
217] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
218] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
219] 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.
220] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
221] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
222] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
223] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
224] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
225] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
226] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
227] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
228] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
229] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
230] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
231] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
232] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
233] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
234] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
235] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
236] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
237] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
238] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
239] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
240] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
241] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
242] 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)
243] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
244] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
245] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
246] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
247] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
249] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
250] 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)
251] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
252] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
253] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
254] 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.
255] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
256] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
257] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
258] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
259] 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 .
260] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
261] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
262] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
263] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
264] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
265] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
266] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
267] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
268] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
269] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
270] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
271] 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)
272] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
273] 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
274] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
275] 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)
276] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
277] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
278] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
279] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
280] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
281] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
282] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
283] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
284] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
285] 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
286] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
287] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
288] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
289] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
290] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
291] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
292] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
293] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
294] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
295] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
296] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
297] 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.
298] 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
299] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
300] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
301] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
302] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
303] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
304] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
305] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
306] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
307] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
308] 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
309] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
310] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
311] 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.
312] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
313] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
314] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
315] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
316] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
317] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
318] 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.
319] 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.
320] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
321] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
322] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
323] 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.
324] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
325] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
326] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
327] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
328] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
329] 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.
330] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
331] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
332] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
333] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
334] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
335] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
336] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
337] 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.
338] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
339] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
340] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
341] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
342] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
343] 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
344] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
345] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
346] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
347] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
348] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
349] 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
350] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
351] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
352] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
353] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
354] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
355] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
356] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
357] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
358] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
359] 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
360] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
361] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
362] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
363] 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.”
364] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
365] 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
366] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
367] 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).
368] 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
369] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
370] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
371] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
372] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
373] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
374] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
375] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
376] 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.
377] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
378] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
379] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
380] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
381] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
382] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
383] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
384] 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
385] Commonsense is not so common.
386] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
387] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
388] 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
389] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
390] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
391] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
392] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
393] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
394] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
395] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
396] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
397] 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
398] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
399] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
400] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
401] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
402] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
403] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
404] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
405] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
406] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
407] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
408] 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)
409] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
410] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
411] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
412] 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
413] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
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] 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.
416] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
417] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
418] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
419] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
420] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
421] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
422] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
423] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
424] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
425] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
426] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
427] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
428] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
429] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
430] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
431] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
432] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
433] 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.
434] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
435] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
436] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
437] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
438] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
439] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
440] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
441] 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)
442] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
443] 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
444] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
445] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
446] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
447] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
448] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
449] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
450] 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)
451] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
452] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
453] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
454] 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.
455] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
456] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
457] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
458] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
459] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
460] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
461] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
462] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
463] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
464] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
465] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
466] 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
467] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
468] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
469] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
470] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
471] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
472] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
473] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
474] 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
475] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
476] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
477] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
478] 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.
479] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
480] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
481] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
482] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
483] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
484] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
485] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
486] 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.
487] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
488] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
489] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
490] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
491] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
492] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
493] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
495] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
496] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
497] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
498] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
499] 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.
500] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
501] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
502] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
503] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
504] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
505] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
506] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
507] 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.
508] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
509] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
510] 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)
511] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
512] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
513] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
514] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
515] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
516] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
517] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
518] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
519] 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.
520] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
521] 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.
522] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
523] 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
524] 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)
525] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
526] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
527] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
528] 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.
529] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
530] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
531] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
532] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
533] 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.
534] 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)
535] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
536] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
537] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
538] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
539] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
540] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
541] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
542] 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
543] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
544] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
545] 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.
546] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
547] 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
548] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
549] 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.
550] 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.
551] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
552] 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)
553] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
554] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
555] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
556] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
557] 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
558] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
559] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
560] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
561] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
562] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
563] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
564] 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
565] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
566] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
567] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
568] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
569] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
570] 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
571] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
572] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
573] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
574] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
575] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
576] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
577] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
578] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
579] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
580] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
581] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
582] 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.
583] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
584] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
585] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
586] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
587] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
588] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
589] 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.
590] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
591] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
592] 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
593] 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.
594] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
595] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
596] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
597] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
598] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
599] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
600] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.