Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
2] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
3] 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)
4] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
5] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
6] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
7] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
8] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
9] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
10] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
11] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
12] 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
13] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
14] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
15] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
16] 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.
17] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
18] 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
19] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
20] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
21] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
22] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
23] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
24] 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
25] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
26] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
27] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
28] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
29] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
30] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
31] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
32] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
33] 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.
34] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
35] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
36] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
37] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
38] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
39] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
40] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
41] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
42] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
43] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
44] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
45] 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.
46] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
47] 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
48] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
49] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
50] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
51] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
52] 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.
53] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
54] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
55] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
56] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
57] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
58] 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)
59] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
60] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
61] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
62] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
63] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
64] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
65] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
66] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
67] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
68] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
69] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
70] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
71] 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
72] 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.
73] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
74] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
75] 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.
76] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
77] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
78] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
79] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
80] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
81] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
82] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
83] 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).
84] 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)
85] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
86] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
87] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
88] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
89] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
90] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
91] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
92] 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)
93] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
94] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
95] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
96] 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
97] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
98] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
99] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
100] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
101] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
102] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
103] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
104] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
105] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
106] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
107] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
108] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
109] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
110] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
111] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
112] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
113] 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.
114] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
115] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
116] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
117] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
118] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
119] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
120] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
121] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
122] 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.
123] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
124] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
125] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
126] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
127] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
128] 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
129] 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)
130] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
131] 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.
132] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
133] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
134] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
135] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
136] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
137] 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.”
138] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
139] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
140] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
141] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
142] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
143] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
144] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
145] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
146] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
147] 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.
148] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
149] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
150] 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
151] 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.
152] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
153] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
154] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
155] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
156] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
157] 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)
158] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
159] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
160] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
161] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
162] 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)
163] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
164] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
165] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
166] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
167] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
168] 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).
169] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
170] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
171] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
172] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
173] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
174] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
175] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
176] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
177] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
178] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
179] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
180] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
181] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
182] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
183] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
184] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
185] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
186] 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)
187] 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.
188] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
189] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
190] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
191] 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.
192] 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.
193] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
194] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
195] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
196] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
197] 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.
198] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
199] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
200] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
201] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
202] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
203] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
204] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
205] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
206] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
207] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
208] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
209] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
210] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
211] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
212] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
213] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
214] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
215] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
216] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
217] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
218] 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.
219] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
220] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
221] 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]
222] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
223] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
224] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
225] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
226] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
227] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
228] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
229] 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.
230] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
231] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
232] 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)
233] 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
234] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
235] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
236] 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)
237] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
238] 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)
239] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
240] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
241] 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.
242] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
243] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
244] 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.
245] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
246] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
247] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
248] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
249] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
250] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
251] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
252] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
253] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
254] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
255] 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
256] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
257] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
258] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
259] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
260] 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.
261] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
262] 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.
263] 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.
264] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
265] 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
266] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
267] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
268] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
269] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
270] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
271] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
272] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
273] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
274] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
275] 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)
276] 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
277] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
278] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
279] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
280] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
281] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
282] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
283] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
284] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
285] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
286] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
287] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
288] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
289] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
290] 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.
291] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
292] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
293] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
294] 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
295] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
296] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
297] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
298] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
299] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
300] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
301] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
302] 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
303] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
304] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
305] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
306] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
307] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
308] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
309] 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.
310] 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)
311] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
312] 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
313] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
314] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
315] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
316] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
317] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
318] 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
319] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
320] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
321] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
322] 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
323] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
324] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
325] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
326] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
327] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
328] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
329] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
330] Commonsense is not so common.
331] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
332] 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
333] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
334] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
335] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
336] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
337] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
338] 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.
339] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
340] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
341] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
342] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
343] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
344] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
345] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
346] 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
347] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
348] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
349] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
350] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
351] 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.
352] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
353] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
354] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
355] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
356] 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)
357] 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
358] 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
359] 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.
360] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
361] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
362] 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.
363] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
364] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
365] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
366] 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.
367] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
368] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
369] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
370] 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)
371] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
372] 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.
373] 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.
374] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
375] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
376] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
377] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
378] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
379] 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
380] 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
381] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
382] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
383] 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
384] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
385] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
386] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
387] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
388] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
389] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
390] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
391] 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
392] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
393] 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]
394] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
395] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
396] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
397] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
398] 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
399] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
400] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
401] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
402] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
403] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
404] 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
405] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
406] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
407] 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.
408] 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)
409] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
410] 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)
411] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
412] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
413] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
414] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
415] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
416] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
417] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
418] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
419] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
420] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
421] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
422] 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.
423] 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
424] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
425] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
426] 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.
427] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
428] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
429] 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)
430] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
431] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
432] 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)
433] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
434] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
435] 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
436] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
437] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
438] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
439] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
440] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
441] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
442] 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.
443] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
444] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
445] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
446] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
447] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
448] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
449] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
450] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
451] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
452] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
453] 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.
454] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
455] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
456] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
457] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
458] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
459] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
460] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
461] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
462] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
463] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
464] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
465] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
466] 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
467] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
468] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
469] 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.
470] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
471] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
472] 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.
473] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
474] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
475] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
476] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
477] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
478] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
479] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
480] 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
481] 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.
482] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
483] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
484] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
485] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
486] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
487] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
488] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
489] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
490] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
491] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
492] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
493] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
494] 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)
495] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
496] 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
497] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
498] 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
499] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
500] 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.
501] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
502] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
503] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
504] 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.
505] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
506] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
507] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
508] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
509] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
510] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
511] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
512] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
513] 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.
514] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
515] 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.
516] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
517] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
518] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
519] 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.
520] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
521] 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
522] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
523] 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.
524] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
525] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
526] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
527] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
528] 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.
529] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
530] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
531] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
532] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
533] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
534] 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)
535] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
536] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
537] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
538] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
539] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
540] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
541] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
542] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
543] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
544] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
545] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
546] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
547] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
548] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
549] 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
550] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
551] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
552] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
553] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
554] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
555] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
556] 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.
557] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
558] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
559] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
560] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
561] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
562] 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.
563] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
564] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
565] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
566] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
567] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
568] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
569] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
570] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
571] 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)
572] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
573] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
574] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
575] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
576] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
577] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
578] 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
579] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
580] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
581] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
582] 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
583] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
584] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
585] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
586] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
587] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
588] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
589] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
590] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
591] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
592] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
593] 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.
594] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
595] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
596] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
597] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
598] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
599] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
600] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)