Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
3] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
4] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
5] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
6] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
7] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
8] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
9] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
10] 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
11] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
12] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
13] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
14] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
15] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
16] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
17] 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
18] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
19] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
20] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
21] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
22] 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
23] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
24] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
25] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
26] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
27] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
28] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
29] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
30] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
31] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
32] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
33] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
34] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
35] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
36] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
37] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
38] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
39] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
40] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
41] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
42] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
43] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
44] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
45] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
46] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
47] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
48] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
49] 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)
50] 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)
51] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
52] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
53] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
54] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
55] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
56] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
57] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
58] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
59] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
60] 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.
61] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
62] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
63] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
64] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
65] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
66] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
67] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
68] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
69] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
70] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
71] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
72] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
73] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
74] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
75] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
76] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
77] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
78] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
79] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
80] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
81] 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 .
82] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
83] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
84] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
85] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
86] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
87] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
88] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
89] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
90] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
91] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
92] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
93] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
94] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
95] 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
96] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
97] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
98] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
99] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
100] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
101] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
102] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
103] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
104] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
105] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
106] 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.
107] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
108] 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.
109] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
110] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
111] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
112] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
113] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
114] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
115] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
116] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
117] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
118] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
119] 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.
120] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
121] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
122] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
123] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
124] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
125] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
126] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
127] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
128] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
129] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
130] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
131] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
132] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
133] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
134] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
135] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
136] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
137] 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
138] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
139] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
140] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
141] 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.
142] 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)
143] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
144] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
145] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
146] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
147] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
148] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
149] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
150] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
151] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
152] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
153] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
154] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
155] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
156] 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
157] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
158] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
159] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
160] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
161] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
162] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
163] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
164] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
165] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
166] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
167] 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.
168] 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.
169] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
170] 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
171] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
172] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
173] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
174] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
175] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
176] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
177] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
178] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
179] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
180] 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
181] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
182] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
183] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
184] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
185] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
186] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
187] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
188] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
189] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
190] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
191] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
192] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
193] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
194] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
195] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
196] 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
197] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
198] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
199] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
200] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
201] 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
202] 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)
203] 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.
204] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
205] Commonsense is not so common.
206] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
207] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
208] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
209] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
210] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] 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 .
212] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
213] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
214] 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
215] 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
216] 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.
217] 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]
218] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
219] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
220] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
221] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
222] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
223] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
224] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
225] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
226] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
227] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
228] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
229] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
230] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
231] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
232] 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.
233] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
234] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
235] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
236] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
237] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
238] 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.
239] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
240] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
241] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
242] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
243] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
245] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
246] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
247] 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
248] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
249] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
250] 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.
251] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
252] 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)
253] 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
254] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
255] 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)
256] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
257] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
258] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
259] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
260] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
261] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
262] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
263] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
264] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
265] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
266] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
267] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
268] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
269] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
270] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
271] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
272] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
273] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
274] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
275] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
276] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
277] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
278] 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
279] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
280] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
281] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
282] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
283] 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.
284] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
285] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
286] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
287] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
288] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
289] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
290] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
291] 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.
292] 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)
293] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
294] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
295] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
296] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
297] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
298] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
299] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
300] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
301] 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)
302] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
303] 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
304] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
305] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
306] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
307] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
308] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
309] 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
310] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
311] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
312] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
313] 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.
314] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
315] 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
316] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
317] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
318] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
319] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
320] 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.
321] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
322] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
323] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
324] 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
325] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
326] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
327] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
328] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
329] 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)
330] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
331] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
332] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
333] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
334] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
335] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
336] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
337] 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.
338] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
339] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
340] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
341] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
342] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
343] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
344] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
345] 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
346] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
347] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
348] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
349] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
350] 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.
351] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
352] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
353] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
354] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
355] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
356] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
357] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
358] 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.
359] 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
360] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
361] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
362] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
363] 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)
364] 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
365] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
366] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
367] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
368] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
369] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
370] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
371] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
372] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
373] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
374] 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
375] 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
376] 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.
377] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
378] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
379] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
380] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
381] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
382] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
383] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
384] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
385] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
386] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
387] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
388] 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
389] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
390] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
391] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
392] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
393] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
394] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
395] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
396] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
397] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
398] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
399] 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
400] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
401] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
402] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
403] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
404] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
405] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
406] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
407] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
408] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
409] 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
410] 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
411] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
412] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
413] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
414] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
415] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
416] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
417] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
418] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
419] 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).
420] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
421] 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
422] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
423] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
424] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
425] 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
426] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
427] 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.”
428] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
429] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
430] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
431] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
432] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
433] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
434] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
435] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
436] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
437] 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.
438] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
439] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
440] 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
441] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
442] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
443] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
444] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
445] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
446] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
447] 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.
448] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
449] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
450] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
451] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
452] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
453] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
454] 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.
455] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
456] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
457] 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)
458] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
459] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
460] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
461] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
462] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
463] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
464] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
465] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
466] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
467] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
468] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
469] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
470] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
471] 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
472] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
473] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
474] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
475] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
476] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
477] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
478] 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)
479] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
480] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
481] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
482] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
483] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
484] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
485] 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
486] 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.
487] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
488] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
489] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
490] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
491] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
492] 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
493] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
494] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
495] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
496] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
497] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
498] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
499] 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
500] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
501] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
502] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
503] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
504] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
505] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
506] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
507] 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)
508] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
509] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
510] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
511] 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.
512] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
513] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
514] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
515] 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.
516] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
517] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
518] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
519] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
520] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
521] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
522] 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)
523] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
524] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
525] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
526] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
527] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
528] 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
529] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
530] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
531] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
532] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
533] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
534] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
535] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
536] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
537] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
538] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
539] 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.
540] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
541] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
542] 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.
543] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
544] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
545] 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)
546] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
547] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
548] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
549] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
550] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
551] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
552] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
553] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
554] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
555] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
556] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
557] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
558] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
559] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
560] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
561] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
562] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
563] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
564] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
565] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
566] 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.
567] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
568] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
569] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
570] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
571] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
572] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
573] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
574] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
575] 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)
576] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
577] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
578] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
579] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
580] 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
581] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
582] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
583] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
584] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
585] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
586] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
587] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
588] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
589] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
590] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
591] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
592] 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
593] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
594] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
595] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
596] 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
597] 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).
598] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
599] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
600] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.