Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
2] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
3] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
4] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
5] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
6] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
7] 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.
8] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
9] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
10] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
11] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
13] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
14] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
15] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
16] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
17] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
18] 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.
19] 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.
20] 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.
21] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
22] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
23] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
24] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
25] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
26] 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
27] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
28] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
29] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
30] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
31] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
32] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
33] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
34] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
35] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
36] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
37] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
38] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
39] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
40] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
41] 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
42] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
43] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
44] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
45] 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.”
46] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
47] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
48] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
49] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
50] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
51] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
52] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
53] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
54] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
55] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
56] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
57] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
58] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
59] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
60] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
61] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
62] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
63] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
64] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
65] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
66] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
67] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
68] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
69] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
70] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
71] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
72] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
73] 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 .
74] 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.
75] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
76] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
77] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
78] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
79] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
80] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
81] 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)
82] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
83] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
84] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
85] 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
86] 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.
87] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
88] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
89] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
90] 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
91] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
92] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
93] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
94] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
95] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
96] 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.
97] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
98] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
99] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
100] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
101] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
102] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
103] 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)
104] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
105] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
106] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
107] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
108] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
109] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
110] 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
111] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
112] 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
113] 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.
114] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
115] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
116] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
117] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
118] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
119] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
120] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
121] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
122] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
123] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
124] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
125] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
126] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
127] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
128] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
129] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
130] 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.
131] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
132] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
133] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
134] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
135] 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)
136] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
137] 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
138] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
139] 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
140] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
141] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
142] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
143] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
144] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
145] 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.
146] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
147] 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
148] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
149] 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.
150] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
151] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
152] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
153] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
154] 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
155] 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.
156] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
157] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
158] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
159] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
160] 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)
161] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
162] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
163] 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
164] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
165] 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
166] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
167] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
168] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
169] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
170] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
171] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
172] 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
173] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
174] 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.
175] 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)
176] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
177] 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)
178] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
179] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
180] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
181] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
182] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
183] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
184] 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).
185] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
186] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
187] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
188] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
189] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
190] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
191] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
192] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
193] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
194] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
195] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
196] 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
197] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
198] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
199] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
200] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
201] 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.
202] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
203] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
204] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
205] 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
206] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
207] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
208] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
209] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
210] 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.
211] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
212] 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.
213] 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
214] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
215] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
216] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
217] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
218] 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.
219] 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)
220] 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
221] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
222] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
223] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
224] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
225] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
226] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
227] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
228] 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)
229] 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
230] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
231] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
232] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
233] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
234] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
235] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
236] 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
237] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
238] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
239] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
240] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
241] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
242] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
243] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
244] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
245] 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.
246] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
247] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
248] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
249] 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.
250] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
251] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
252] 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.
253] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
254] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
255] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
256] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
257] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
258] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
259] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
260] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
261] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
262] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
263] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
264] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
265] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
266] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
267] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
268] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
269] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
270] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
271] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
272] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
273] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
274] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
275] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
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] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
278] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
279] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
280] 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
281] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
282] 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.
283] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
284] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
285] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
286] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
287] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
288] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
289] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
290] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
291] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
292] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
293] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
294] 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)
295] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
296] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
297] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
298] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
299] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
300] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
301] 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
302] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
303] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
304] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
305] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
306] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
307] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
308] 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.
309] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
310] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
311] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
312] 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
313] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
314] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
315] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
316] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
317] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
318] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
319] 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.
320] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
321] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
322] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
323] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
324] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
325] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
326] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
327] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
328] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
329] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
330] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
331] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
332] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
333] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
334] 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.
335] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
336] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
337] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
338] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
339] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
340] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
341] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
342] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
343] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
344] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
345] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
346] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
347] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
348] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
349] 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]
350] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
351] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
352] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
353] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
354] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
355] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
356] 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.
357] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
358] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
359] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
360] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
361] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
362] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
363] 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.
364] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
365] 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.
366] 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
367] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
368] 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
369] 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
370] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
371] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
372] 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)
373] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
374] 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
375] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
376] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
377] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
378] 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.
379] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
380] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
381] 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
382] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
383] 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.
384] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
385] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
386] 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 .
387] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
388] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
389] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
390] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
391] 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.
392] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
393] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
394] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
395] 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.
396] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
397] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
398] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
399] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
400] 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.
401] 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)
402] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
403] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
404] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
405] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
406] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
407] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
408] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
409] 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.
410] 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
411] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
412] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
413] 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
414] 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.
415] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
416] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
417] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
418] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
419] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
420] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
421] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
422] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
423] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
424] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
425] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
426] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
427] 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.
428] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
429] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
430] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
431] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
432] 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.
433] 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
434] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
435] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
436] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
437] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
438] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
439] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
440] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
441] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
442] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
443] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
444] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
445] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
446] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
447] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
448] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
449] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
450] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
451] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
452] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
453] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
454] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] 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)
456] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
457] 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
458] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
459] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
460] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
461] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
462] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
463] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
464] 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.
465] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
466] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
467] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
468] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
469] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
470] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
471] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
472] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
473] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
474] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
475] 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.
476] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
477] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
478] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
479] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
480] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
481] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
482] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
483] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
484] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
485] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
486] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
487] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
488] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
489] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
490] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
491] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
492] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
493] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
494] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
495] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
496] 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.
497] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
498] 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)
499] 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.
500] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
501] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
502] 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.
503] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
504] 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.
505] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
506] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
507] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
508] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
509] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
510] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
511] 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.
512] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
513] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
514] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
515] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
516] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
517] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
518] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
519] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
520] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
521] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
522] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
523] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
524] 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
525] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
526] 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.
527] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
528] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
529] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
530] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
531] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
532] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
533] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
534] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
535] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
536] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
537] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
538] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
539] 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.
540] 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.
541] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
542] 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.
543] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
544] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
545] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
546] 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
547] 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)
548] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
549] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
550] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
551] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
552] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
553] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
554] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
555] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
556] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
557] 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
558] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
559] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
560] 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
561] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
562] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
563] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
564] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
565] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
566] 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.
567] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
568] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
569] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
570] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
571] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
572] 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
573] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
574] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
575] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
576] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
577] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
578] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
579] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
580] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
581] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
582] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
583] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
584] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
585] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
586] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
587] 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.
588] 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)
589] 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.
590] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
591] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
592] 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.
593] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
594] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
595] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
596] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
597] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
598] 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.
599] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
600] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.