Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
2] 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.
3] 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.
4] 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
5] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
6] 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
7] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
8] 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.
9] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
10] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
11] 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.
12] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
13] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
14] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
15] 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
16] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
17] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
18] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
19] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
20] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
21] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
22] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
23] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
24] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
25] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
26] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
27] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
28] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
29] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
30] 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.
31] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
32] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
33] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
34] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
35] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
36] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
37] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
38] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
39] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
40] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
41] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
42] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
43] 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.
44] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
45] 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
46] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
47] 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
48] 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)
49] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
50] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
51] 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
52] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
53] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
54] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
55] 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
56] 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.
57] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
58] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
59] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
60] 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.
61] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
62] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
63] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
64] 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)
65] 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.
66] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
67] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
68] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
69] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
70] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
71] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
72] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
73] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
74] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
75] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
76] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
77] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
78] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
79] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
80] 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.
81] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
82] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
83] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
84] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
85] 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.
86] 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
87] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
88] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
89] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
90] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
91] 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.
92] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
93] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
94] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
95] 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)
96] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
97] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
98] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
99] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
100] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
101] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
102] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
103] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
104] 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.
105] 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.
106] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
107] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
108] 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.
109] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
110] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
111] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
112] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
113] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
114] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
115] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
116] 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)
117] 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)
118] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
119] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
120] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
121] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
122] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
123] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
124] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
125] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
126] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
127] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
128] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
129] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
130] 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.
131] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
132] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
133] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
134] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
135] 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.”
136] 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.
137] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
138] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
139] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
140] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
141] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
142] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
143] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
144] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
145] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
146] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
147] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
148] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
149] 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.
150] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
151] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
152] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
153] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
154] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
155] 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.
156] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
157] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
158] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
159] 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.
160] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
161] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
162] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
163] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
164] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
165] 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.
166] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
167] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
168] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
169] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
170] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
171] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
172] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
173] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
174] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
175] 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.
176] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
177] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
178] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
179] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
180] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
181] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
182] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
183] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
184] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
185] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
186] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
187] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
188] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
189] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
190] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
191] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
192] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
193] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
194] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
195] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
196] 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.
197] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
198] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
199] 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.
200] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
201] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
202] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
203] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
204] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
205] 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.
206] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
207] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
208] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
209] 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
210] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
211] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
212] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
213] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
214] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
215] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
216] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
217] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
218] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
219] 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
220] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
221] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
222] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
223] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
224] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
225] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
226] 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.
227] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
228] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
229] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
230] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
231] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
232] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
233] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
234] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
235] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
236] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
237] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
238] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
239] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
240] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
241] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
242] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
243] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
244] 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
245] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
246] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
247] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
248] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
249] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
250] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
251] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
252] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
253] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
254] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
255] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
256] 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
257] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
258] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
259] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
260] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
261] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
262] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
263] 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
264] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
265] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
266] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
267] 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.
268] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
269] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
270] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
271] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
272] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
273] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
274] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
275] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
276] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
277] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
278] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
279] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
280] 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.
281] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
282] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
283] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
284] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
285] 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
286] 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)
287] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
288] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
289] 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
290] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
291] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
292] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
293] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
294] 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
295] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
296] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
297] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
298] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
299] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
300] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
301] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
302] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
303] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
304] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
305] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
306] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
307] 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
308] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
309] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
310] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
311] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
312] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
313] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
314] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
315] 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
316] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
317] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
318] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
319] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
320] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
321] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
322] 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
323] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
324] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
325] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
326] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] 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.
328] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
329] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
330] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
331] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
332] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
333] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
334] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
335] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
336] 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
337] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
338] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
339] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
340] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
341] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
342] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
343] 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)
344] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
345] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
346] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
347] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
348] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
349] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
350] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
351] 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.
352] 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.
353] 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.
354] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
355] 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.
356] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
357] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
358] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
359] 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.
360] 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).
361] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
362] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
363] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
364] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
365] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
366] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
367] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
368] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
369] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
370] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
371] 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.
372] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
373] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
374] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
375] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
376] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
377] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
378] 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
379] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
380] 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)
381] 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
382] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
383] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
384] 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.
385] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
386] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
387] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
388] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
389] 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
390] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
391] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
392] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
393] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
394] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
395] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
396] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
397] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
398] Commonsense is not so common.
399] 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.
400] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
401] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
402] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
403] 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
404] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
405] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
406] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
407] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
408] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
409] 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.
410] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
411] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
412] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
413] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
414] 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
415] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
416] 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 .
417] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
418] 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.
419] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
420] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
421] 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)
422] 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)
423] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
424] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
425] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
426] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
427] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
428] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
429] 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.
430] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
431] 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
432] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
433] 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.
434] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] 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.
436] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
437] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
438] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
439] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
440] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
441] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
442] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
443] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
444] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
445] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
446] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
447] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
448] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
449] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
450] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
451] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
452] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
453] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
454] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
455] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
456] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
457] 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.
458] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
459] 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.
460] 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
461] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
462] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
463] Commonsense is not so common.
464] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
465] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
466] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
467] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
469] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
470] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
471] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
472] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
473] 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
474] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
475] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
476] 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)
477] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
478] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
479] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
480] 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)
481] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
482] 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.
483] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
484] 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.
485] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
486] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
487] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
488] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
489] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
490] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
491] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
492] 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
493] 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.
494] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
495] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
496] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
497] 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.
498] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
499] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
500] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
501] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
502] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
503] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
504] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
505] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
506] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
507] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
508] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
509] 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
510] 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.
511] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
512] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
513] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
514] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
515] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
516] 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
517] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
518] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
519] 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
520] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
521] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
522] 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)
523] 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)
524] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
525] 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
526] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
527] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
528] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
529] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
530] 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.
531] 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
532] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
533] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
534] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
535] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
536] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
537] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
538] 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.
539] 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.
540] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
541] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
542] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
543] 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
544] 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)
545] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
546] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
547] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
548] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
549] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
550] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
551] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
552] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
553] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
554] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
555] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
556] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
557] 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)
558] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
559] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
560] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
561] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
562] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
563] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
564] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
565] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
566] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
567] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
568] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
569] 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.
570] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
571] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
572] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
573] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
574] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
575] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
576] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
577] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
578] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
579] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
580] 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
581] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
582] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
583] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
584] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
585] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
586] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
587] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
588] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
589] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
590] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
591] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
592] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
593] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
594] 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
595] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
596] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
597] 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.
598] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
599] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
600] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt