Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
3] 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
4] 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.
5] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
6] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
7] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
8] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
9] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
10] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
11] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
12] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
13] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
14] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
15] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
16] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
17] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
18] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
19] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
20] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
21] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
22] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
23] 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.
24] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
25] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
26] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
27] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
28] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
29] 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
30] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
31] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
32] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
33] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
34] 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).
35] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
36] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
37] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
38] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
39] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
40] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
41] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
42] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
43] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
44] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
45] 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
46] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
47] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
48] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
49] 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)
50] 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.
51] 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
52] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
53] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
54] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
55] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
56] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
57] 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.
58] 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
59] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
60] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
61] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
62] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
63] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
64] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
65] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
66] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
67] 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.
68] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
69] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
70] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
71] 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
72] Commonsense is not so common.
73] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
74] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
75] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
76] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
77] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
78] 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
79] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
80] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
81] 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)
82] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
83] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
84] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
85] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
86] 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
87] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
88] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
89] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
90] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
91] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
92] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
93] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
94] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
95] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
96] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
97] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
98] 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.
99] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
100] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
101] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
102] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
103] 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
104] 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.
105] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
106] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
107] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
108] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
109] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
110] 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
111] 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.
112] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
113] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
114] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
115] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
116] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
117] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
118] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
119] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
120] 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.
121] 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.
122] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
123] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
124] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
125] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
126] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
127] 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.
128] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
129] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
130] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
131] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
132] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
133] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
134] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
135] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
136] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
137] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
138] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
139] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
140] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
141] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
142] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
143] 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.
144] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
145] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
146] 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
147] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
148] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
149] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
150] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
151] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
152] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
153] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
154] 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)
155] 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
156] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
157] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
158] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
159] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
160] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
161] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
162] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
163] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
164] 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.
165] 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.
166] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
167] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
168] 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.
169] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
170] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
171] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
172] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
173] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
174] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
175] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
176] 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.
177] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
178] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
179] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
180] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
181] 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
182] 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.
183] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
184] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
185] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
186] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
187] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
188] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
189] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
190] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
191] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
192] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
193] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
194] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
195] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
196] 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
197] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
198] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
199] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
200] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
201] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
202] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
203] 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.”
204] 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.
205] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
206] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
207] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
208] 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.
209] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
210] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
211] 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)
212] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
213] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
214] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
215] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
216] 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.
217] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
218] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
219] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
220] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
221] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
222] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
223] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
224] 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.
225] 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.
226] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
227] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
228] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
229] 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.
230] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
231] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
232] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
233] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
234] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
235] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
236] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
237] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
238] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
239] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
240] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
241] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
242] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
243] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
244] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
245] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
246] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
247] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
248] 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.
249] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
250] 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
251] 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)
252] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
253] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
254] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
255] 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
256] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
257] 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]
258] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
259] 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)
260] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
261] 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
262] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
263] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
264] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
265] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
266] 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)
267] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
268] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
269] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
270] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
271] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
272] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
273] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
274] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
275] 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
276] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
277] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
278] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
279] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
280] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
281] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
282] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
283] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
284] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
285] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
286] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
287] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
288] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
289] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
290] 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.
291] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
292] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
293] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
294] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
295] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
296] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
297] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
298] 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)
299] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
300] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
301] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
302] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
303] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
304] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
305] 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.
306] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
307] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
308] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
309] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
310] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
311] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
312] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
313] 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.
314] 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.
315] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
316] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
317] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
318] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
319] 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.
320] 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)
321] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
322] 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.
323] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
324] 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
325] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
326] 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
327] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
328] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
329] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
330] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
331] 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.
332] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
333] 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
334] 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
335] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
336] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
337] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
338] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
339] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
340] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
341] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
342] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
343] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
344] 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.
345] 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)
346] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
347] 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)
348] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
349] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
350] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
351] 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
352] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
353] 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.
354] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
355] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
357] 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.
358] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
359] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
360] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
361] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
362] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
363] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
364] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
365] 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.
366] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
367] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
368] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
369] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
370] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
371] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
372] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
373] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
374] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
375] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
376] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
377] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
378] 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)
379] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
380] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
381] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
382] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
383] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
384] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
385] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
386] 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.
387] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
388] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
389] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
390] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
391] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
392] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
393] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
394] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
395] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
396] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
397] 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.
398] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
399] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
400] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
401] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
402] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
403] 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.
404] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
405] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
406] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
407] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
408] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
409] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
410] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
411] 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.
412] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
413] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
414] 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.
415] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
416] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
417] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
418] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
419] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
420] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
421] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
422] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
423] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
424] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
425] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
426] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
427] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
428] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
429] 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
430] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
431] 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.
432] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
433] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
434] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
435] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
436] 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.
437] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
438] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
439] 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)
440] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
441] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
442] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
443] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
444] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
445] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
446] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
447] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
448] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
449] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
450] 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.
451] 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.
452] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
453] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
454] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
455] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
456] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
457] 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
458] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
459] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
460] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
461] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
462] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
463] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
464] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
465] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
466] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
467] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
468] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
469] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
470] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
471] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
472] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
473] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
474] 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.
475] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
476] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
477] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
478] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
479] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
480] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
481] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
482] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
483] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
484] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
485] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
486] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
487] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
488] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
489] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
490] 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).
491] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
492] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
493] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
494] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
495] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
496] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
497] 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.
498] 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
499] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
500] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
501] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
502] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
503] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
504] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
505] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
506] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
507] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
508] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
509] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
510] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
511] 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)
512] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
513] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
514] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
515] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
516] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
517] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
518] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
519] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
520] 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
521] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
522] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
523] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
524] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
525] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
526] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
527] 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).
528] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
529] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
530] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
531] 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
532] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
533] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
534] 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)
535] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
536] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
537] 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)
538] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
539] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
540] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
541] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
542] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
543] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
544] 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.
545] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
546] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
547] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
548] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
549] 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
550] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
551] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
552] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
553] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
554] 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
555] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
556] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
557] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
558] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
559] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
560] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
561] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
562] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
563] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
564] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
565] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
566] 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.
567] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
568] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
569] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
570] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
571] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
572] 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
573] 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
574] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
575] 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
576] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
577] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
578] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
579] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
580] 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.”
581] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
582] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
583] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
584] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
585] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
586] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
587] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
588] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
589] 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
590] 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.
591] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
592] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
593] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
594] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
595] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
596] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
597] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
598] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
599] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
600] 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.