Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
2] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
3] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
4] 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.
5] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
6] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
7] 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.
8] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
9] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
11] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
12] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
13] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
15] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
16] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
17] 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)
18] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
19] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
20] 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.
21] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
22] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
23] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
24] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
25] 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.
26] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
27] 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.
28] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
29] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
30] 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.
31] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
32] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
33] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
34] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
35] 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
36] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
37] 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.
38] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
39] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
40] 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.
41] 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.
42] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
43] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
44] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
45] 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.
46] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
47] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
48] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
49] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
50] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
51] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
52] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
53] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
54] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
55] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
56] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
57] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
58] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
59] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
60] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
61] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
62] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
63] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
64] 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
65] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
66] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
67] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
68] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
69] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
70] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
71] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
72] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
73] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
74] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
75] Commonsense is not so common.
76] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
77] 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.
78] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
79] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
80] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
81] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
82] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
83] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
84] 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
85] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
86] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
87] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
88] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
89] 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)
90] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
91] 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.
92] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
93] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
94] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
95] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
96] 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.
97] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
98] 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)
99] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
100] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
101] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
102] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
103] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
104] 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)
105] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
106] 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
107] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
108] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
109] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
110] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
111] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
112] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
113] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
114] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
115] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
116] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
117] 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.
118] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
119] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
120] 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)
121] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
122] 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)
123] 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
124] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
125] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
126] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
127] 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
128] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
129] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
130] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
131] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
132] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
133] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
134] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
135] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
136] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
137] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
138] 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
139] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
140] 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.
141] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
142] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
143] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
144] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
145] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
146] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
147] 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).
148] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
149] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
150] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
151] 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
152] 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)
153] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
154] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
155] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
156] 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.
157] 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.
158] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
159] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
160] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
161] 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.
162] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
163] 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
164] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
165] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
166] 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
167] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
168] 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)
169] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
170] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
171] 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.
172] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
173] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
174] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
175] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
176] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
177] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
178] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
179] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
180] 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.
181] 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.
182] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
183] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
184] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
185] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
186] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
187] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
188] 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
189] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
190] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
191] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
192] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
193] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
194] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
195] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
196] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
197] 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
198] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
199] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
200] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
201] 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
202] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
203] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
204] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
205] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
206] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
207] 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
208] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
209] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
210] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
211] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
212] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
213] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
214] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
215] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
216] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
217] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
218] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
219] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
220] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
221] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
222] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
223] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
224] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
225] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
226] 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.
227] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
228] 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.
229] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
230] 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.
231] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
232] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
233] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
234] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
235] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
236] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
237] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
238] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
239] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
240] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
241] 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.
242] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
243] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
244] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
245] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
246] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
247] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
248] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
249] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
250] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
251] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
252] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
253] 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
254] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
255] 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
256] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
257] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
258] 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
259] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
260] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
261] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
262] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
263] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
264] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
265] 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)
266] 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.
267] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
268] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
269] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
270] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
271] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
272] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
273] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
274] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
275] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
276] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
277] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
278] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
279] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
280] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
281] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
282] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
283] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
284] 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.
285] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
286] 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.
287] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
288] 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.
289] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
290] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
291] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
292] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
293] 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
294] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
295] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
296] 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.
297] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
298] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
299] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
300] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
301] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
302] 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
303] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
304] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
305] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
306] 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.
307] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
308] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
309] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
310] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
311] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
312] 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.
313] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
314] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
315] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
316] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
317] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
318] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
319] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
320] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
321] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
322] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
323] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
324] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
325] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
326] 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
327] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
328] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
329] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
330] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
331] 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.
332] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
334] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
335] 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.
336] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
337] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
338] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
339] 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)
340] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
341] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
342] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
343] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
344] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
345] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
346] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
347] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
348] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
349] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
350] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
351] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
352] 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.
353] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
354] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
355] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
356] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
357] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
358] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
359] 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
360] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
361] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
362] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
363] 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)
364] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
365] 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)
366] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
367] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
368] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
369] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
370] 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.
371] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
372] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
374] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
375] 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).
376] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
377] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
378] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
379] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
380] 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)
381] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
382] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
383] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
384] 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
385] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
386] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
387] 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.
388] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
389] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
390] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
391] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
392] 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.
393] 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)
394] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
395] 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
396] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
397] 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.
398] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
399] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
400] 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
401] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
402] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
403] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
404] 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.
405] 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
406] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
407] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
408] 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
409] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
410] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
411] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
412] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
413] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
414] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
415] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
416] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
417] 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
418] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
419] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
420] 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
421] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
422] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
423] 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.
424] 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.
425] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
426] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
427] 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
428] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
429] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
430] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
431] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
432] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
433] 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
434] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
435] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
436] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
437] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
438] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
439] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
440] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
441] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
442] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
443] 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.
444] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
445] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
446] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
447] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
448] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
449] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
450] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
451] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
452] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
453] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
454] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
455] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
456] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
457] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
458] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
459] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
460] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
461] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
462] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
463] 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
464] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
465] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
466] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
467] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
469] 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.
470] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
471] 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
472] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
473] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
474] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
475] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
476] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
477] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
478] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
479] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
480] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
481] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
482] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
483] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
484] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
485] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
486] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
487] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
488] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
489] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
490] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
491] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
492] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
493] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
494] 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.
495] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
496] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
497] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
498] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
499] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
500] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
501] 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
502] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
503] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
504] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
505] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
506] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
507] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
508] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
509] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
510] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
511] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
512] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
513] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
514] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
515] 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.
516] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
517] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
518] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
519] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
521] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
522] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
523] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
524] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
525] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
526] 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).
527] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
528] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
529] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
530] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
531] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
532] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
533] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
534] 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.
535] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
536] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
537] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
538] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
539] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
540] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
541] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
542] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
543] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
544] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
545] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
546] 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
547] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
548] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
549] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
550] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
551] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
552] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
553] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
554] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
555] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
556] 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.
557] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
558] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
559] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
560] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
561] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
562] 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
563] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
564] 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]
565] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
566] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
567] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
568] 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
569] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
570] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
571] 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)
572] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
573] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
574] 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]
575] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
576] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
577] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
578] 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.
579] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
580] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
581] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
582] 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
583] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
584] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
585] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
586] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
587] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
588] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
589] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
590] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
591] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
592] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
593] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
594] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
595] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
596] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
597] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
598] 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.
599] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
600] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter