Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
2] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
3] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
4] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
5] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
6] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
7] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
8] 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
9] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
10] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
11] 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.
12] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
13] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
14] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
15] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
16] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
18] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
19] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
20] 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
21] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
22] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
23] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
24] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
25] 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.
26] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
27] 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)
28] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
29] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
30] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
31] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
32] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
33] 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.
34] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
35] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
36] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
37] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
38] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
39] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
40] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
41] 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
42] 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.
43] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
44] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
45] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
46] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
47] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
48] 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
49] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
50] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
51] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
52] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
53] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
54] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
55] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
56] 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
57] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
58] 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)
59] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
60] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
61] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
62] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
63] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
64] 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
65] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
66] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
67] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
68] 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.
69] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
70] 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
71] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
72] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
73] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
74] 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
75] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
76] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
77] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
78] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
79] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
80] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
81] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
82] 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.
83] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
84] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
85] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
86] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
87] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
88] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
89] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
90] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
91] 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.
92] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
93] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
94] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
95] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
96] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
97] 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
98] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
99] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
100] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
101] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
102] 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)
103] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
104] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
105] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
106] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
107] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
108] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
109] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
110] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
111] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
112] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
113] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
114] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
115] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
116] 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
117] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
118] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
119] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
120] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
121] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
122] 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.
123] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
124] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
125] 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
126] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
127] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
128] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
129] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
130] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
131] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
132] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
133] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
134] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
135] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
136] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
137] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
138] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
139] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
140] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
141] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
142] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
143] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
144] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
145] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
146] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
147] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
148] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
149] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
150] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
151] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
152] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
153] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
154] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
155] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
156] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
157] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
158] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
159] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
160] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
161] 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
162] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
163] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
164] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
165] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
166] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
167] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
168] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
169] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
170] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
171] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
172] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
173] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
174] 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.
175] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
176] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
177] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
178] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
179] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
180] 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
181] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
182] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
183] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
184] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
185] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
186] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
187] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
188] 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.
189] 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.
190] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
191] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
192] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
193] 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)
194] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
195] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
196] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
197] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
198] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
199] 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.
200] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
201] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
202] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
203] 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
204] 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.
205] 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
206] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
207] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
208] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
209] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
210] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
211] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
212] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
213] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
214] 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).
215] 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.
216] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
217] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
218] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
219] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
220] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
221] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
222] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
223] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
224] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
225] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
226] 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.
227] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
228] 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.
229] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
230] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
231] 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.
232] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
233] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
234] 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)
235] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
236] 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)
237] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
238] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
239] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
240] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
241] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
242] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
243] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
244] 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.
245] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
246] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
247] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
248] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
249] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
250] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
251] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
252] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
253] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
254] 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
255] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
256] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
257] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
258] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
259] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
260] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
261] 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
262] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
263] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
264] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
265] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
266] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
267] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
268] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
269] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
270] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
271] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
272] 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)
273] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
274] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
275] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
276] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
277] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
278] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
279] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
280] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
281] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
282] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
283] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
284] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
285] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
286] 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
287] 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)
288] 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.
289] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
290] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
291] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
292] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
293] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
294] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
295] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
296] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
297] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
298] 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.
299] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
300] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
301] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
302] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
303] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
304] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
305] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
306] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
307] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
308] 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.
309] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
310] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
311] 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)
312] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
313] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
314] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
315] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
316] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
317] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
318] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
319] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
320] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
321] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
322] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
323] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
324] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
325] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
326] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
327] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
328] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
329] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
330] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
331] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
332] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
333] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
334] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
335] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
336] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
337] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
338] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
339] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
340] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
341] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
342] 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.
343] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
344] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
345] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
346] 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
347] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
348] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
349] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
350] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
351] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
352] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
353] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
354] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
355] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
356] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
357] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
358] 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.
359] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
360] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
361] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
362] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
363] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
364] 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.
365] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
366] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
367] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
368] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
369] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
370] 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.
371] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
372] 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
373] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
374] 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.
375] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
376] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
377] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
378] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
379] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
380] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
381] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
382] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
383] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
384] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
385] 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
386] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
387] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
388] 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.
389] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
390] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
391] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
392] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
393] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
394] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
395] 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.
396] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
397] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
398] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
399] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
400] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
401] 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.”
402] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
403] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
404] 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
405] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
406] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
407] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
408] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
409] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
410] 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
411] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
412] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
413] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
414] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
415] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
416] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
417] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
418] 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
419] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
420] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
421] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
422] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
423] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
424] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
425] 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)
426] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
427] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
428] 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)
429] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
430] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
431] 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)
432] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
433] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
434] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
435] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
436] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
437] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
438] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
439] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
440] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
441] 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.
442] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
443] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
444] 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.
445] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
446] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
447] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
448] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
449] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
450] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
451] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
452] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
453] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
454] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
455] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
456] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
457] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
458] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
459] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
460] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
461] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
462] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
463] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
464] 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.
465] 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.
466] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
467] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
468] 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
469] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
470] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
471] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
472] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
473] 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
474] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
475] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
476] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
477] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
478] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
479] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
480] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
481] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
482] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
483] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
484] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
485] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
486] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
487] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
488] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
489] 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)
490] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
491] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
492] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
493] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
494] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
495] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
496] 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.
497] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
498] 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.
499] 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.
500] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
501] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
502] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
503] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
504] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
505] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
506] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
507] 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
508] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
509] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
510] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
511] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
512] 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.
513] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
514] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
515] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
516] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
517] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
518] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
519] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
520] 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
521] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
522] 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.
523] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
524] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
525] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
526] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
527] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
528] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
529] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
530] 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.
531] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
533] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
534] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
535] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
536] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
538] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
539] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
540] 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)
541] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
542] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
543] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
544] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
545] 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.
546] 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.
547] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
548] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
549] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
550] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
551] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
552] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
553] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
554] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
555] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
556] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
557] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
558] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
559] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
560] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
561] 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)
562] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
563] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
564] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
565] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
566] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
567] 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
568] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
569] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
570] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
571] 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)
572] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
573] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
574] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
575] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
576] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
577] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
578] 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
579] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
580] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
581] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
582] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
583] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
584] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
585] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
586] 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)
587] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
588] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
589] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
590] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
591] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
592] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
593] 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)
594] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
595] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
596] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
597] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
598] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
599] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
600] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard