Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
2] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
3] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
4] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
5] 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.
6] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
7] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
8] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
9] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
10] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
11] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
12] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
13] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] 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
15] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
16] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
17] 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.
18] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
19] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
20] 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.
21] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
22] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
23] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
24] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
25] 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
26] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
27] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
28] 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
29] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
30] 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.
31] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
32] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
33] 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)
34] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
35] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
36] 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.
37] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
38] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
39] 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.
40] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
41] 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)
42] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
44] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
45] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
46] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
47] 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
48] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
49] 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
50] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
51] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
52] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
53] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
54] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
55] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
56] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
57] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
58] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
59] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
60] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
61] 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.
62] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
63] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
64] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
65] 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
66] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
67] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
68] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
69] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
70] 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)
71] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
72] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
73] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
74] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
75] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
76] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
77] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
78] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
79] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
80] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
81] 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
82] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
83] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
84] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
85] 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)
86] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
87] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
88] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
89] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
90] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
91] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
92] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
93] 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.
94] 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.
95] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
96] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
97] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
98] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
99] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
100] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
101] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
102] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
103] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
104] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
105] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
106] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
107] 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.
108] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
109] 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.
110] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
111] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
112] 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.
113] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
114] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
115] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
116] 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.
117] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
118] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
119] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
120] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
121] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
122] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
123] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
124] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
125] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
126] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
127] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
128] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
129] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
130] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
131] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
132] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
133] 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.
134] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
135] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
136] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
137] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
138] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
139] 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.
140] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
141] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
142] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
143] 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).
144] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
145] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
146] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
147] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
148] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
149] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
150] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
151] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
152] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
153] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
154] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
155] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
156] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
157] 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)
158] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
159] 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)
160] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
161] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
162] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
163] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
164] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
165] 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
166] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
167] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
168] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
169] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
170] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
171] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
172] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
173] 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.
174] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
175] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
176] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
177] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
178] 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.
179] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
180] 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
181] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
182] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
183] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
184] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
185] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
186] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
187] 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.
188] 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
189] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
190] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
191] Commonsense is not so common.
192] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
193] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
194] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
195] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
196] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
197] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
198] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
199] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
200] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
201] 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.
202] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
203] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
204] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
205] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
206] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
207] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
208] 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.
209] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
210] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
211] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
212] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
213] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
214] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
215] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
216] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
217] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
218] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
219] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
221] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
223] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
224] 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.
225] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
226] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
227] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
228] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
229] 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
230] 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
231] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
232] 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.
233] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
234] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
235] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
236] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
237] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
238] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
239] 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.
240] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
241] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
242] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
243] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
244] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
245] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
246] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
247] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
248] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
249] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
250] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
251] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
252] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
253] 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
254] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
255] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
256] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
257] 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
258] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
259] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
260] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
261] 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
262] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
263] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
264] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
266] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
267] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
268] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
269] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
270] 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
271] 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
272] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
273] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
274] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
275] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
276] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
277] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
278] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
279] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
280] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
281] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
282] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
283] 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.
284] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
285] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
286] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
287] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
288] 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
289] 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.
290] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
291] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
292] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
293] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
294] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
295] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
296] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
297] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
298] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
299] 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.
300] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
301] 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)
302] 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
303] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
304] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
305] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
306] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
307] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
308] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
309] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
310] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
311] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
312] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
313] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
314] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
315] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
316] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
317] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
318] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
319] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
320] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
321] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
322] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
323] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
324] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
325] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
326] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
327] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
328] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
329] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
330] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
331] 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)
332] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
334] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
335] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
336] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
337] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
338] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
339] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
340] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
341] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
342] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
343] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
344] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
345] 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.
346] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
347] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
348] 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.
349] 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.
350] 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
351] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
352] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
353] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
354] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
355] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
356] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
357] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
358] 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
359] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
360] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
361] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
362] 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
363] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
364] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
365] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
366] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
367] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
368] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
369] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
370] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
371] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
372] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
373] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
374] 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
375] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
376] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
377] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
378] 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.
379] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
380] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
381] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
382] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
383] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
384] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
385] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
386] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
387] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
388] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
389] 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
390] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
391] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
392] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
393] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
394] 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).
395] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
396] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
397] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
398] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
399] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
400] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
401] 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.
402] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
403] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
404] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
405] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
406] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
407] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
408] 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.
409] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
410] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
411] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
412] 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
413] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
414] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
415] 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.
416] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
417] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
418] 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)
419] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
420] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
421] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
422] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
423] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
424] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
425] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
426] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
427] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
428] 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
429] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
430] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
431] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
432] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
433] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
434] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
435] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
436] 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)
437] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
438] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
439] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
440] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
441] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
442] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
443] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
444] 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)
445] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
446] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
447] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
448] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
449] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
450] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
451] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
452] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
453] 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.
454] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
455] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
456] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
457] 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.
458] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
459] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
460] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
461] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
462] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
463] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
464] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
465] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
466] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
467] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
468] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
469] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
470] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
471] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
472] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
473] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
474] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
475] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
476] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
477] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
478] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
479] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
480] 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.
481] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
482] 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)
483] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
484] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
485] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
486] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
487] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
488] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
489] 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.
490] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
491] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
492] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
493] 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.
494] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
495] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] 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
497] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
498] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
499] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
500] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
501] 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
502] 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 .
503] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
504] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
505] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
506] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
507] 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
508] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
509] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
510] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
511] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
512] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
513] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
514] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
515] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
516] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
517] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
518] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
519] 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
520] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
521] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
522] 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
523] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
524] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
525] 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
526] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
527] 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.
528] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
529] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
530] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
531] 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.
532] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
533] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
534] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
535] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
536] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
537] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
538] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
539] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
540] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
541] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
542] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
543] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
544] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
545] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
546] 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.
547] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
548] 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.
549] 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
550] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
551] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
552] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
553] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
554] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
555] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
556] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
557] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
558] 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.
559] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
560] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
561] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
562] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
563] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
564] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
565] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
566] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
567] 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]
568] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
569] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
570] 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.
571] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
572] 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)
573] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
574] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
575] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
576] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
577] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
578] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
579] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
580] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
581] 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.
582] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
583] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
584] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
585] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
586] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
587] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
588] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
589] 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.
590] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
591] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
592] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
593] 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.
594] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
595] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
596] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
597] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
598] 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.
599] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
600] 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)