Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
2] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
3] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
4] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
5] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
6] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
7] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
8] 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.
9] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
10] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
11] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
12] 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.
13] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
14] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
15] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
16] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
17] 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.
18] 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
19] 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
20] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
21] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
22] 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
23] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
24] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
25] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
26] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
27] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
28] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
29] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
30] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
31] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
32] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
33] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
35] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
36] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
37] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
38] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
39] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
40] 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)
41] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
42] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
43] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
44] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
45] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
46] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
47] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
48] 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.
49] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
51] 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.”
52] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
53] 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.
54] 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
55] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
56] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
57] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
58] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
59] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
60] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
61] 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).
62] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
63] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
64] 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
65] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
66] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
67] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
68] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
69] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
70] 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
71] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
72] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
73] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
74] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
75] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
76] 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
77] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
78] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
79] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
80] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
81] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
82] 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.
83] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
84] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
85] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
86] 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.
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] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
89] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
90] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
91] 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.
92] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
93] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
94] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
95] 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]
96] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
97] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
99] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
100] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
101] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
102] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
103] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
104] 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.
105] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
106] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
107] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
108] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
109] 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
110] 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.
111] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
112] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
113] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
114] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
115] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
116] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
117] 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)
118] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
119] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
120] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
121] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
122] 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.
123] 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)
124] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
125] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
126] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
127] 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.
128] 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
129] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
130] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
131] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
132] 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
133] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
134] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
135] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
136] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
137] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
138] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
139] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
140] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
141] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
142] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
143] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
144] 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
145] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
146] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
147] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
148] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
149] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
150] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
151] 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.
152] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
153] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
154] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
155] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
156] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
157] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
158] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
159] 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.
160] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
161] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
162] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
163] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
164] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
165] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
166] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
167] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
168] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
169] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
170] 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)
171] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
172] 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
173] 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
174] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
175] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
176] 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.
177] 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)
178] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
179] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
180] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
181] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
182] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
183] 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.
184] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
185] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
186] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
187] 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
188] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
189] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
190] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
191] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
192] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
193] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
194] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
195] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
196] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
197] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
198] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
199] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
200] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
201] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
202] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
203] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
204] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
205] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
206] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
207] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
208] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
209] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
210] 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.
211] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
212] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
213] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
214] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
215] 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
216] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
217] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
218] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
219] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
220] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
221] 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)
222] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
223] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
224] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
225] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
227] 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.
228] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
229] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
230] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
231] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
232] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
233] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
234] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
235] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
236] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
237] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
238] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
239] 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
240] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
241] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
242] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
243] 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
244] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
245] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
246] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
247] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
248] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
249] 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.
250] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
251] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
252] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
253] 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.
254] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
255] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
256] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
257] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
258] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
259] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
260] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
261] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
262] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
263] 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)
264] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
265] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
266] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
267] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
268] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
269] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
270] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
271] 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.
272] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
273] 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.
274] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
275] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
276] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
277] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
278] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
279] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
280] 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
281] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
282] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
283] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
284] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
285] 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
286] 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)
287] 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)
288] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
289] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
290] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
291] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
292] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
293] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
294] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
295] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
296] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
297] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
298] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
299] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
300] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
301] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
302] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
303] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
304] 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)
305] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
306] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
307] 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)
308] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
309] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
310] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
311] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
312] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
313] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
314] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
315] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
316] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
317] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
318] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
319] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
320] 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.
321] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
322] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
323] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
324] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
325] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
326] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
327] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
328] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
329] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
330] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
331] 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.
332] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
333] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
334] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
335] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
336] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
337] 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).
338] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
339] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
340] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
341] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
342] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
343] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
344] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
345] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
346] 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
347] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
348] 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
349] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
350] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
351] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
352] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
353] 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)
354] 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.
355] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
356] 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)
357] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
358] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
359] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
360] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
361] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
362] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
363] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
364] 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
365] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
366] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
367] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
368] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
369] 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
370] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
371] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
372] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
373] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
374] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
375] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
376] 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
377] 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.
378] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
379] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
380] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
381] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
382] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
383] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
384] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
385] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
386] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
387] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
388] 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.
389] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
390] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
391] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
392] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
393] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
394] 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
395] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
396] 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.
397] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
398] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
399] 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
400] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
401] 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)
402] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
403] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
404] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
405] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
406] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
407] 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
408] 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.
409] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
410] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
411] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
412] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
413] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
414] 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.
415] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
416] 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.
417] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
418] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
419] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
420] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
421] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
422] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
423] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
424] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
425] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
426] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
427] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
428] 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.
429] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
430] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
431] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
432] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
433] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
434] 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.
435] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
436] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
437] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
438] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
439] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
440] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
441] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
442] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
443] 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
444] 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
445] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
446] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
447] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
448] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
449] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
450] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
451] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
452] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
453] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
454] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
455] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
456] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
457] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
458] 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]
459] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
460] 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
461] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
462] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
463] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
464] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
465] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
466] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
467] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
468] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
469] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
470] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
471] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
472] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
473] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
474] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
475] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
476] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
477] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
478] 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.
479] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
480] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
481] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
482] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
483] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
484] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
485] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
486] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
487] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
488] 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
489] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
490] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
491] 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
492] 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.
493] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
494] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
495] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
496] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
497] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
498] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
499] 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.
500] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
501] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
502] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
503] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
504] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
505] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
506] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
507] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
508] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
509] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
510] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
511] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
512] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
513] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
514] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
515] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
516] 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
517] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
518] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
519] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
520] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
521] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
522] 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
523] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
524] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
525] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
526] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
527] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
528] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
529] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
530] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
531] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
532] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
533] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
534] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
535] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
536] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
537] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
538] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
539] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
540] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
541] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
542] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
543] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
544] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
545] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
546] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
547] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
548] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
549] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
550] 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.
551] Commonsense is not so common.
552] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
553] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
554] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
555] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
556] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
557] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
558] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
559] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
560] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
561] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
562] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
563] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
564] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
565] 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 .
566] 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
567] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
568] 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.
569] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
570] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
571] 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
572] 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
573] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
574] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
575] 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.
576] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
577] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
578] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
579] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
580] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
581] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
582] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
583] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
584] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
585] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
586] 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
587] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
588] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
589] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
590] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
591] 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)
592] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
593] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
594] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
595] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
596] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
597] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
598] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
599] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
600] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler