Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
2] 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.
3] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
4] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
5] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
6] 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.
7] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
8] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
9] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
10] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
11] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
12] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
13] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
14] 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
15] 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
16] 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
17] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
18] 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.
19] 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)
20] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
21] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
22] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
23] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
24] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
25] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
26] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
27] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
28] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
29] 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
30] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
31] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
32] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
33] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
34] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
35] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
36] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
37] 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
38] 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
39] 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.
40] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
41] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
42] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
43] 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.
44] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
45] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
46] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
47] 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)
48] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
49] 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.
50] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
51] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
52] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
53] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
54] 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.
55] 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.
56] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
57] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
58] 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
59] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
60] 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
61] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
62] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
63] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
64] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
65] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
66] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
67] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
68] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
69] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
70] 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
71] 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.
72] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
73] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
74] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
75] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
76] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
77] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
78] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
79] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
80] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
81] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
82] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
83] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
84] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
85] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
86] 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.
87] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
88] 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.
89] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
90] 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
91] 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.
92] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
93] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
94] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
95] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
96] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
97] 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.
98] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
99] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
100] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
101] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
102] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
103] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
104] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
105] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
106] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
107] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
108] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
109] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
110] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
111] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
112] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
113] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
114] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
115] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
116] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
117] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
118] 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.
119] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
120] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
121] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
122] 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
123] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
124] 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
125] 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
126] 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
127] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
128] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
129] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
130] 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
131] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
132] 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.”
133] 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.
134] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
135] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
136] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
137] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
138] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
139] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
140] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
141] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
142] 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
143] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
144] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
145] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
146] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
147] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
148] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
149] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
150] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
151] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
152] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
153] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
154] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
155] 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)
156] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
157] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
158] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
159] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
160] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
161] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
162] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
163] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
164] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
165] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
166] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
167] 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
168] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
169] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
170] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
171] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
172] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
173] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
174] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
175] 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
176] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
177] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
178] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
179] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
180] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
181] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
182] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
183] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
184] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
185] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
186] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
187] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
188] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
189] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
190] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
191] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
192] 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
193] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
194] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
195] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
196] 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.
197] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
198] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
199] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
200] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
201] 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)
202] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
203] 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)
204] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
205] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
206] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
207] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
208] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
209] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
210] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
211] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
212] 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.
213] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
214] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
215] 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)
216] 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
217] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
218] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
219] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
220] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
221] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
222] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
223] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
224] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
225] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
227] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
228] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
229] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
230] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
231] 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.
232] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
233] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
234] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
235] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
236] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
237] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
238] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
239] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
240] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
241] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
242] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
243] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
244] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
245] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
246] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
247] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
248] 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.
249] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
250] 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.
251] 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.
252] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
253] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
254] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
255] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
256] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
257] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
258] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
259] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
260] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
261] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
262] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
263] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
264] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
265] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
266] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
267] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
268] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
269] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
270] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
271] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
272] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
273] 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.
274] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
275] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
276] 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.
277] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
278] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
279] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
280] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
281] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
282] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
283] 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.
284] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
285] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
286] 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.
287] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
288] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
289] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
290] 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
291] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
292] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
293] 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)
294] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
295] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
296] 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
297] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
298] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
299] 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
300] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
301] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
302] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
303] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
304] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
305] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
306] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
307] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
308] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
309] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
310] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
311] 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.
312] 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
313] 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)
314] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
315] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
316] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
317] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
318] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
319] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
320] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
321] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
322] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
323] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
324] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
325] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
326] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
327] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
328] 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)
329] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
330] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
331] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
332] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
333] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
334] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
335] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
336] 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.
337] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
338] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
339] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
340] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
341] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
342] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
343] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
344] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
345] 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.
346] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
347] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
348] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
349] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
350] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
351] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
352] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
353] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
354] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
355] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
356] 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
357] 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)
358] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
359] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
360] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
361] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
362] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
363] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
364] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
365] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
366] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
367] 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
368] 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.
369] 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
370] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
371] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
372] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
373] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
374] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
375] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
376] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
377] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
378] 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.
379] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
380] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
381] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
382] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
383] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
384] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
385] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
386] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
387] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
388] 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)
389] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
390] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
391] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
392] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
393] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
394] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
395] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
396] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
397] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
398] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
399] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
400] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
401] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
402] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
403] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
404] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
405] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
406] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
407] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
408] 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.
409] 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
410] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
411] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
412] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
413] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
414] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
415] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
416] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
417] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
418] 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
419] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
420] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
421] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
422] 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
423] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
424] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
425] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
426] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
427] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
428] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
429] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
430] 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.
431] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
432] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
433] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
434] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
435] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
436] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
437] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
438] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
439] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
440] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
441] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
442] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
443] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
444] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
445] 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)
446] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
447] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
448] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
449] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
450] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
451] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
452] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
453] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
454] 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.
455] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
456] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
457] 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
458] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
459] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
460] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
461] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
462] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
463] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
464] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
465] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
466] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
467] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
468] 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)
469] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
470] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
471] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
472] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
473] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
474] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
475] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
476] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
477] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
478] 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
479] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
480] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
481] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
482] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
483] 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
484] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
485] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
486] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
487] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
488] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
490] 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
491] 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.
492] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
493] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
494] 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.
495] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
496] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
497] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
498] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
499] 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.
500] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
501] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
502] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
503] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
504] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
505] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
506] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
507] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
508] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
509] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
510] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
511] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
512] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
513] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
514] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
515] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
516] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
517] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
518] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
519] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
520] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
521] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
522] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
523] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
524] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
525] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
526] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
527] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
528] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
529] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
530] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
531] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
532] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
533] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
534] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
535] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
536] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
537] 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
538] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
539] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
540] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
541] 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.
542] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
543] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
544] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
545] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
546] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
547] 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)
548] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
549] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
550] 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.
551] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
552] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
553] 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
554] 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.
555] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
556] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
557] 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.
558] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
559] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
560] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
561] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
562] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
563] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
564] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
565] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
566] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
567] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
568] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
569] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
570] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
571] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
572] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
573] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
574] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
575] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
576] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
577] 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.
578] 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)
579] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
580] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
581] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
582] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
583] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
584] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
585] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
586] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
587] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
588] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
589] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
590] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
591] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
592] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
593] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
594] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
595] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
596] 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.
597] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
598] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
599] 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
600] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson