Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
3] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
4] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
5] 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
6] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
7] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
8] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
9] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
10] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
11] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
12] 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.
13] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
14] 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.
15] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
17] 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.
18] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
19] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
20] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
21] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
22] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
23] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
24] 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
25] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
26] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
27] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
28] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
29] 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.
30] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
31] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
32] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
33] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
34] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
35] 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.
36] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
37] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
38] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
39] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
40] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
41] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
42] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
43] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
44] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
45] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
46] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
47] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
48] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
49] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
50] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
51] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
52] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
53] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
54] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
55] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
56] 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
57] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
58] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
59] 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)
60] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
61] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
62] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
63] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
64] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
65] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
66] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
67] 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.
68] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
69] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
70] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
71] 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
72] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
73] 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.
74] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
75] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
76] 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
77] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
78] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
79] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
80] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
81] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
82] 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)
83] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
84] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
85] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
86] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
87] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
88] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
89] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
90] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
91] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
92] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
93] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
94] 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.
95] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
96] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
97] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
98] 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.
99] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
100] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
101] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
102] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
103] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
104] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
105] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
106] 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
107] 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
108] 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.
109] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
110] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
111] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
112] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
113] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
114] 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)
115] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
116] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
117] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
118] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
119] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
120] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
121] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
122] 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
123] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
124] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
125] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
126] 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)
127] 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.
128] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
129] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
130] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
131] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
132] 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)
133] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
134] 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
135] 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)
136] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
137] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
138] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
139] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
140] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
141] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
142] 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.
143] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
144] 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)
145] 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
146] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
147] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
148] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
149] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
150] 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)
151] 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
152] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
153] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
154] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
155] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
156] 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.”
157] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
158] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
159] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
160] 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.
161] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
162] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
163] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
164] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
165] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
166] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
167] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
168] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
169] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
170] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
171] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
172] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
173] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
174] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
175] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
176] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
177] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
178] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
179] 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.
180] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
181] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
182] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
183] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
184] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
185] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
186] 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
187] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
188] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
189] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
190] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
191] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
192] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
193] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
194] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
195] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
196] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
197] 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
198] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
199] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
200] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
201] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
202] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
203] 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
204] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
205] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
206] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
207] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
208] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
209] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
210] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
211] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
212] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
213] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
214] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
215] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
216] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
217] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
218] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
219] 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.
220] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
221] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
222] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
223] 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).
224] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
225] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
226] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
227] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
228] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
229] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
230] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
231] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
232] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
233] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
234] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
235] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
236] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
237] 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)
238] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
239] 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.
240] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
241] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
242] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
243] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
244] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
245] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
246] 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)
247] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
248] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
249] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
250] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
251] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
252] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
253] 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
254] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
255] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
256] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
257] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
258] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
259] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
260] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
261] 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.
262] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
263] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
264] 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.
265] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
266] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
267] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
268] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
269] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
270] 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
271] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
272] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
273] 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
274] 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.
275] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
276] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
277] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
278] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
279] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
280] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
281] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
282] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
283] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
284] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
285] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
286] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
287] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
288] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
289] 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
290] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
291] 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.
292] 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.
293] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
294] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
295] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
296] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
297] 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
298] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
299] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
300] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
301] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
302] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
303] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
304] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
305] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
306] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
307] 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.
308] 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.
309] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
310] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
311] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
312] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
313] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
314] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
315] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
316] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
317] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
318] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
319] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
320] 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.
321] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
322] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
323] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
324] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
325] 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.
326] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
327] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
328] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
329] 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.
330] 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
331] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
332] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
333] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
334] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
335] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
336] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
337] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
338] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
339] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
340] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
341] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
342] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
343] 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)
344] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
345] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
346] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
347] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
348] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
349] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
350] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
351] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
352] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
353] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
354] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
355] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
356] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
357] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
358] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
359] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
360] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
361] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
362] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
363] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
364] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
365] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
366] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
367] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
368] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
369] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
370] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
371] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
372] 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.
373] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
374] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
375] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
376] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
377] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
378] 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.
379] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
380] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
381] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
382] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
383] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
384] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
385] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
386] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
387] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
388] 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.
389] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
390] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
391] 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
392] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
393] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
394] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
395] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
396] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
397] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
398] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
399] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
400] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
401] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
402] 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)
403] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
404] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
405] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
406] 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
407] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
408] 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)
409] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
410] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
411] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
412] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
413] 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.
414] 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
415] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
416] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
417] 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.
418] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
419] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
420] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
421] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
422] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
423] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
424] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
425] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
426] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
427] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
428] 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
429] 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
430] 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.
431] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
432] 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.
433] 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
434] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
435] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
436] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
437] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
438] 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)
439] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
440] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
441] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
442] 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
443] 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)
444] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
445] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
446] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
447] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
448] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
449] 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
450] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
451] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
452] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
453] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
454] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
455] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
456] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
457] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
458] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
459] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
460] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
461] 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.
462] 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
463] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
464] 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.
465] 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 .
466] 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.
467] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
468] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
469] 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
470] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
471] 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
472] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
473] 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.
474] 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)
475] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
476] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
477] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
478] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
479] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
480] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
481] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
482] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
483] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
484] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
485] 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.
486] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
487] 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.
488] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
489] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
490] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
491] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
492] Commonsense is not so common.
493] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
494] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
495] 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).
496] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
497] 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)
498] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
499] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
500] 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
501] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
502] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
503] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
504] 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
505] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
506] 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)
507] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
508] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
509] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
510] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
512] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
513] 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.
514] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
515] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
516] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
517] 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.
518] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
519] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
520] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
521] 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)
522] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
523] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
524] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
525] 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
526] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
527] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
528] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
529] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
530] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
531] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
532] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
533] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
534] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
535] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
536] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
537] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
538] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
539] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
540] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
541] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
542] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
543] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
544] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
545] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
546] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
547] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
548] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
549] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
550] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
551] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
552] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
553] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
554] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
555] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
556] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
557] 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.
558] 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
559] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
560] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
561] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
562] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
563] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
564] 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.
565] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
566] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
567] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
568] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
569] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
570] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
571] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
572] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
573] 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.
574] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
575] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
576] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
577] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
578] 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
579] 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.
580] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
581] 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)
582] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
583] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
584] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
585] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
586] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
587] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
588] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
589] 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
590] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
591] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
592] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
593] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
594] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
595] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
596] 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
597] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
598] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
599] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
600] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton