Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
2] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
3] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
4] 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)
5] 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.
6] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
7] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
8] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
9] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
10] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
11] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
12] 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.
13] 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.
14] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
15] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
16] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
17] 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)
18] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
19] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
20] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
21] 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
22] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
23] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
24] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
25] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
26] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
27] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
28] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
29] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
30] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
31] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
32] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
33] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
34] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
35] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
36] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
37] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
38] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
39] 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
40] 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
41] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
42] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
43] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
44] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
45] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
46] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
47] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
48] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
49] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
50] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
51] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
52] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
53] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
54] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
55] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
56] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
57] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
58] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
59] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
60] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
61] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
62] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
63] 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
64] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
65] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
66] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
67] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
68] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
69] 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
70] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
71] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
72] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
73] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
74] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
75] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
76] 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
77] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
78] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
79] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
80] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
81] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
82] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
83] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
84] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
85] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
86] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
87] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
88] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
89] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
90] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
91] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
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] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
94] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
95] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
96] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
97] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
98] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
99] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
100] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
101] 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
102] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
103] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
104] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
105] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
106] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
107] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
108] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
109] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
110] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
111] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
112] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
113] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
114] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
115] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
116] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
117] 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
118] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
119] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
120] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
121] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
122] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
123] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
124] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
125] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
126] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
127] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
128] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
129] 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]
130] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
131] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
132] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
133] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
134] 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
135] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
136] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
137] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
138] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
139] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
140] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
141] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
142] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
143] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
144] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
145] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
146] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
147] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
148] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
149] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
150] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
151] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
152] 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
153] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
154] 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)
155] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
156] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
157] 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.
158] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
159] 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.
160] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
161] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
162] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
163] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
164] 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.
165] 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
166] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
167] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
168] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
169] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
170] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
171] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
172] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
173] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
174] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
175] 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.
176] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
177] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
178] 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)
179] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
180] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
181] 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.”
182] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
183] 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.
184] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
185] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
186] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
187] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
188] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
189] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
190] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
191] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
192] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
193] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
194] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
195] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
196] 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
197] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
198] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
199] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
200] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
201] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
202] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
203] 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.
204] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
205] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
206] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
207] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
208] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
209] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
210] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
212] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
213] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
214] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
215] 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.
216] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
217] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
218] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
219] 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.
220] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
221] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
222] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
223] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
224] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
225] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
226] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
227] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
228] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
229] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
230] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
231] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
232] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
233] 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
234] 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
235] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
236] 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
237] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
238] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
239] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
240] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
241] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
242] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
243] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
244] 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.
245] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
246] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
247] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
248] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
249] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
250] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
251] 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.
252] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
253] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
254] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
255] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
256] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
257] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
258] 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 .
259] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
260] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
261] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
262] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
263] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
264] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
265] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
266] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
267] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
268] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
269] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
270] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
271] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
272] 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.
273] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
274] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
275] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
276] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
277] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
278] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
279] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
280] 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.
281] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
282] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
283] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
284] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
285] 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.
286] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
287] 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.
288] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
289] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
290] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
291] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
292] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
293] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
294] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
295] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
296] 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
297] 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)
298] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
299] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
300] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
301] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
302] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
303] 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
304] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
305] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
306] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
307] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
308] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
309] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
310] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
311] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
312] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
313] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
314] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
315] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
316] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
317] 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)
318] 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
319] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
320] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
321] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
322] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
323] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
324] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
325] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
326] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
327] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
328] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
329] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
330] 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
331] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
332] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
333] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
334] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
335] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
336] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
337] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
338] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
339] 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)
340] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
341] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
342] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
343] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
344] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
345] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
346] 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
347] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
348] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
349] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
350] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
351] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
352] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
353] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
354] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
355] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
356] 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.
357] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
358] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
359] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
360] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
361] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
362] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
363] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
364] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
365] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
366] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
367] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
368] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
369] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
370] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
371] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
372] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
373] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
374] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
375] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
376] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
377] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
378] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
379] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
380] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
381] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
382] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
383] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
384] 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)
385] 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)
386] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
387] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
388] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
389] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
390] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
391] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
392] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
393] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
394] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
395] 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
396] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
397] 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
398] 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)
399] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
400] 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
401] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
402] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
403] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
404] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
405] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
406] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
407] 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)
408] 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)
409] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
410] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
411] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
412] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
413] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
414] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
415] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
416] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
417] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
418] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
419] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
420] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
421] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
422] 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
423] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
424] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
425] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
426] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
427] 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
428] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
429] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
430] 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
431] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
432] 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.
433] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
434] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
435] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
436] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
437] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
438] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
439] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
440] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
441] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
442] 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)
443] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
444] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
445] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
446] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
447] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
448] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
449] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
450] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
451] 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.
452] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
453] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
454] 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.
455] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
456] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
457] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
458] 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
459] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
460] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
461] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
462] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
463] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
464] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
465] 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.
466] 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)
467] 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.
468] 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
469] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
470] 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.
471] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
472] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
473] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
474] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
475] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
476] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
477] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
478] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
479] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
480] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
481] 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
482] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
483] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
484] 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.
485] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
486] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
487] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
488] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
489] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
490] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
491] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
492] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
493] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
494] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
495] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
496] 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
497] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
498] 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
499] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
500] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
501] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
502] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
503] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
504] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
505] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
506] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
507] 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
508] 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)
509] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
510] 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.
511] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
512] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
513] 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.
514] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
515] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
516] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
517] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
518] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
519] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
520] 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.
521] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
522] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
523] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
524] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
525] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
526] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
527] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
528] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
529] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
530] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
531] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
532] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
533] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
534] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
535] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
536] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
537] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
538] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
539] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
540] 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)
541] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
542] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
543] 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.
544] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
545] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
546] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
547] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
548] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
549] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
550] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
551] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
552] 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
553] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
554] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
555] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
556] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
557] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
558] 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)
559] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
560] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
561] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
562] 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.
563] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
564] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
565] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
566] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
567] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
568] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
569] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
570] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
571] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
572] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
573] 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).
574] 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.
575] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
576] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
577] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
578] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
579] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
580] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
581] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
582] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
583] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
584] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
585] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
586] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
587] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
588] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
589] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
590] 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
591] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
592] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
593] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
594] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
595] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
596] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
597] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
598] 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).
599] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
600] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski