Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
2] 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
3] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
4] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
5] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
6] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
7] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
8] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
9] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
10] 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
11] 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.
12] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
13] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
14] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
15] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
16] 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.
17] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
18] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
19] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
20] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
21] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
22] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
23] 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.
24] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
25] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
26] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
27] 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.
28] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
29] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
30] 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)
31] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
32] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
33] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
34] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
35] 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.
36] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
37] 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
38] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
39] 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
40] 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
41] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
42] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
43] 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.”
44] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
45] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
46] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
47] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
48] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
49] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
50] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
51] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
52] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
53] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
54] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
55] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
56] 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
57] 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.
58] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
59] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
60] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
61] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
62] 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.”
63] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
65] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
66] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
67] 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
68] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
69] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
70] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
71] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
72] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
73] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
74] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
75] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
76] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
77] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
78] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
79] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
80] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
81] 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.
82] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
83] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
84] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
85] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
86] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
87] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
88] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
89] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
90] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
91] 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)
92] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
93] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
94] 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.
95] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
96] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
97] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
98] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
99] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
100] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
101] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
102] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
103] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
104] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
105] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
106] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
107] 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)
108] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
109] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
110] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
111] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
112] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
113] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
114] 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.
115] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
116] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
117] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
118] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
119] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
120] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
121] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
122] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
123] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
124] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
125] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
126] Commonsense is not so common.
127] 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
128] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
129] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
130] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
131] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
132] 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
133] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
134] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
135] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
136] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
137] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
138] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
139] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
140] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
141] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
142] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
143] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
144] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
145] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
146] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
147] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
148] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
149] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
150] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
151] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
152] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
153] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
154] 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.
155] 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.
156] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
157] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
158] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
159] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
160] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
161] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
162] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
163] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
164] 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
165] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
166] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
167] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
168] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
169] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
170] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
171] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
172] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
173] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
174] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
175] 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.
176] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
177] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
178] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
179] 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
180] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
181] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
182] 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).
183] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
184] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
185] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
186] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
187] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
188] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
189] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
190] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
191] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
192] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
193] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
194] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
195] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
196] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
197] 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.
198] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
199] 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
200] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
201] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
202] 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
203] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
204] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
205] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
206] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
207] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
208] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
209] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
210] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
211] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
212] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
213] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
214] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
215] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
216] 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
217] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
218] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
219] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
220] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
221] 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
222] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
223] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
224] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
225] 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.
226] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
227] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
228] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
229] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
230] 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)
231] 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
232] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
233] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
234] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
235] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
236] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
237] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
238] 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
239] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
240] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
241] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
242] 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).
243] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
244] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
245] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
246] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
247] 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]
248] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
249] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
250] 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.
251] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
252] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
253] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
254] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
255] 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
256] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
257] 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
258] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
259] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
260] 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.
261] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
262] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
263] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
264] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
265] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
266] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
267] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
268] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
269] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
270] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
271] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
272] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
273] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
274] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
275] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
276] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
277] 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).
278] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
279] 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.
280] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
281] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
282] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
283] 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)
284] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
285] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
286] 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.
287] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
288] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
289] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
290] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
291] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
292] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
293] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
294] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
295] 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)
296] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
297] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
298] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
299] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
300] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
301] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
302] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
303] 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
304] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
305] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
306] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
307] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
308] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
309] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
310] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
311] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
312] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
313] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
314] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
315] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
316] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
317] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
318] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
319] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
320] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
321] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
322] 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.
323] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
324] 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.
325] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
326] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
327] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
328] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
329] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
330] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
331] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
332] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
333] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
334] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
335] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
336] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
337] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
338] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
339] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
340] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
341] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
342] 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
343] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
344] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
345] 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)
346] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
347] 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.
348] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
349] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
350] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
351] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
352] 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.
353] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
354] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
355] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
356] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
357] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
358] 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.
359] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
360] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
361] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
362] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
363] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
364] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
365] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
366] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
367] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
368] 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.
369] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
370] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
371] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
372] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
373] 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.
374] 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
375] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
376] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
377] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
378] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
379] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
380] 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
381] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
382] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
383] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
384] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
385] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
386] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
387] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
388] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
389] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
390] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
391] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
392] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
393] 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
394] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
395] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
396] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
397] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
398] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
399] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
400] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
401] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
402] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
403] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
404] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
405] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
406] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
407] 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)
408] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
409] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
410] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
411] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
412] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
413] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
414] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
415] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
416] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
417] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
418] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
419] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
420] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
421] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
422] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
423] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
424] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
425] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
426] 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.
427] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
428] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
429] 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
430] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
431] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
432] 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.
433] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
434] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
435] 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.
436] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
437] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
438] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
439] 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
440] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
441] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
442] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
443] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
444] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
445] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
446] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
447] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
448] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
449] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
450] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
451] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
452] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
453] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
454] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
455] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
456] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
457] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
458] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
459] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
460] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
461] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
462] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
463] 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.
464] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
465] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
466] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
467] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
468] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
469] 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)
470] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
471] 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
472] 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
473] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
474] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
475] 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.
476] 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.
477] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
478] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
479] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
480] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
481] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
482] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
483] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
484] 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.
485] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
486] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
487] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
488] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
489] 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.
490] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
491] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
492] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
493] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
494] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
495] 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)
496] 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)
497] 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
498] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
499] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
500] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
501] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
502] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
503] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
504] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
505] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
506] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
507] 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
508] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
509] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
510] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
511] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
512] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
513] 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
514] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
515] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
516] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
517] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
518] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
519] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
520] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
521] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
522] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
523] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
524] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
525] 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.
526] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
527] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
528] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
529] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
530] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
531] 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.
532] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
533] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
534] 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)
535] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
536] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
537] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
538] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
539] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
540] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
541] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
542] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
543] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
544] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
545] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
546] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
547] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
548] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
549] 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.
550] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
551] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
552] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
553] 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
554] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
555] 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
556] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
557] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
558] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
559] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
560] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
561] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
562] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
563] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
564] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
565] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
566] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
567] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
568] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
569] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
570] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
571] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
572] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
573] 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
574] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
575] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
576] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
577] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
578] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
579] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
580] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
581] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
582] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
583] 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.
584] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
585] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
586] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
587] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
588] 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)
589] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
590] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
591] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
592] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
593] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
594] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
595] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
596] 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.
597] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
598] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
599] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
600] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.