Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
2] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
3] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
4] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
6] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
7] 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
8] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
9] 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.
10] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
11] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
12] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
13] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
14] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
15] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
16] 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.
17] 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.
18] 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).
19] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
20] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
21] 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.
22] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
23] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
24] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
25] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
26] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
27] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
28] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
29] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
30] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
31] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
32] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
33] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
34] 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.
35] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
36] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
37] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
38] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
39] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
40] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
41] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] 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.
43] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
44] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
45] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
46] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
47] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
48] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
49] 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
50] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
51] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
52] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
53] 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
54] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
55] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
56] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
57] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
58] 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)
59] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
60] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
61] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
62] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
63] 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]
64] 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.
65] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
66] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
67] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
68] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
69] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
70] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
71] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
72] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
73] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
74] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
75] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
76] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
77] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
78] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
79] 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.
80] 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)
81] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
82] 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)
83] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
84] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
85] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
86] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
87] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
88] 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
89] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
90] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
91] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
92] 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
93] 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.
94] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
95] 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)
96] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
98] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
99] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
100] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
101] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
102] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
103] 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)
104] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
105] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
106] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
107] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
108] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
109] 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
110] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
111] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
112] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
113] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
114] 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.
115] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
116] 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
117] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
118] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] 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.
120] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
121] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
122] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
123] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
124] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
125] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
126] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
127] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
128] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
129] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
130] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
131] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
132] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
133] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
134] 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
135] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
136] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
137] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
138] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
139] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
140] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
141] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
142] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
143] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
144] 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)
145] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
146] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
147] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
148] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
149] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
150] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
151] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
152] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
153] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
154] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
155] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
156] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
157] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
158] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
159] 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.
160] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
161] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
162] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
163] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
164] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
165] 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
166] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
167] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
168] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
169] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
170] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
171] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
172] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
173] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
174] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
175] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
176] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
177] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
178] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
179] 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.
180] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
181] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
182] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
183] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
184] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
185] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
186] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
187] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
188] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
189] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
190] 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.
191] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
192] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
193] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
194] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
195] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
196] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
197] 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
198] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
199] 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
200] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
201] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
202] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
203] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
204] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
205] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
206] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
207] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
208] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
209] 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.
210] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
211] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
212] 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)
213] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
214] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
215] 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.
216] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
217] 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.
218] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
219] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
220] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
221] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
222] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
223] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
224] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
225] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
226] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
227] 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)
228] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
229] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
230] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
231] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
232] 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)
233] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
234] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
235] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
236] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
237] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
238] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
239] 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
240] 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.
241] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
242] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
243] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
244] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
245] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
246] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
247] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
248] 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.
249] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
250] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
251] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
252] 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.
253] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
254] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
255] 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
256] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
257] Commonsense is not so common.
258] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
259] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
260] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
261] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
262] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
263] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
264] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
265] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
266] 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.
267] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
268] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
269] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
270] 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 .
271] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
272] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
273] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
274] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
275] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
276] 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.
277] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
278] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
279] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
280] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
281] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
282] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
283] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
284] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
285] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
286] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
287] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
288] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
289] 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.
290] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
291] 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
292] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
293] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
294] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
295] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
296] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
297] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
298] 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
299] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
300] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
301] 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
302] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
303] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
304] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
305] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
306] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
307] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
308] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
309] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
311] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
312] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
313] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
314] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
315] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
316] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
317] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
318] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
319] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
320] 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.”
321] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
322] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
323] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
324] 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.
325] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
326] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
327] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
328] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
329] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
330] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
331] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
332] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
334] 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
335] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
336] 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
337] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
338] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
339] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
340] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
341] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
342] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
343] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
344] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
345] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
346] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
347] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
348] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
349] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
350] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
351] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
352] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
353] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
354] 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.
355] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
356] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
357] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
358] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
359] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
360] 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.
361] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
362] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
363] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
364] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
365] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
366] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
367] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
368] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
369] 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).
370] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
371] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
372] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
373] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
374] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
375] 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
376] 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.
377] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
378] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
379] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
380] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
381] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
382] 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.
383] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
384] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
385] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
386] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
387] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
388] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
389] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
390] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
391] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
392] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
393] 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.
394] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
395] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
396] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
397] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
398] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
399] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
400] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
401] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
402] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
403] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
404] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
405] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
406] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
407] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
408] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
409] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
410] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
411] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
412] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
413] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
414] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
415] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
416] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
417] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
418] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
419] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
420] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
421] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
422] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
423] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
424] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
425] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
426] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
427] 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 .
428] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
429] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
430] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
431] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
432] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
433] 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.
434] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
435] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
436] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
437] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
438] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
439] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
440] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
441] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
442] 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
443] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
444] 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.
445] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
446] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
447] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
448] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
449] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
450] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
451] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
452] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
453] 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.
454] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
455] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
456] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
457] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
458] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
459] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
460] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
461] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
462] 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.
463] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
464] 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
465] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
466] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
467] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
468] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
469] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
470] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
471] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
472] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
473] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
474] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
475] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
476] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
477] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
478] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
479] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
480] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
481] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
482] 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.
483] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
484] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
485] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
486] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
487] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
488] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
489] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
490] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
491] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
492] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
493] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
494] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
495] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
496] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
497] 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.
498] 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).
499] 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.
500] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
501] 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.
502] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
503] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
504] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
505] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
506] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
507] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
508] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
509] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
510] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
511] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
512] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
513] 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)
514] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
515] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
516] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
517] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
518] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
519] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
520] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
521] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
522] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
523] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
524] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
525] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
526] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
527] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
528] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
529] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
530] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
531] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
532] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
533] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
534] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
535] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
536] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
537] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
538] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
539] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
540] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
541] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
542] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
543] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
544] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
545] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
546] 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)
547] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
548] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
549] 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.
550] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
551] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
552] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
553] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
554] 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
555] 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
556] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
557] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
558] 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.
559] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
560] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
561] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
562] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
563] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
564] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
565] 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.
566] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
567] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
568] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
569] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
570] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
571] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
572] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
573] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
574] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
575] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
576] 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
577] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
578] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
579] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
580] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
581] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
582] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
583] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
584] 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
585] 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
586] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
587] 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
588] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
589] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
590] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
591] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
592] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
593] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
594] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
595] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
596] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
597] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
598] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
599] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
600] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)