Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
3] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
4] 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.
5] 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
6] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
7] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
8] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
9] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
10] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
11] 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.”
12] 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)
13] 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.
14] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
15] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
16] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
17] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
18] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
19] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
20] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
21] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
22] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
23] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
24] 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)
25] 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.
26] 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.
27] 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.”
28] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
29] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
30] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
31] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
32] 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.
33] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
34] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
35] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
36] 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.
37] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
38] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
39] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
40] 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.
41] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
42] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
43] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
44] 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
45] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
46] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
47] 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.
48] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
49] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
50] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
51] 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).
52] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
53] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
54] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
55] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
56] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
57] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
58] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
59] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
60] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
61] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
62] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
63] 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.
64] 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
65] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
66] 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
67] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
68] 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)
69] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
70] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
71] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
72] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
73] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
74] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
75] 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)
76] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
77] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
78] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
79] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
80] 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.
81] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
82] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
83] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
84] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
85] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
86] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
87] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
88] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
89] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
90] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
91] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
92] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
93] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
94] 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
95] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
96] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
98] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
99] 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.
100] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
101] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
102] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
103] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
104] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
105] 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)
106] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
107] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
108] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
109] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
110] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
111] 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.
112] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
113] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
114] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
115] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
116] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
117] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
118] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
120] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
121] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
122] 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.
123] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
124] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
125] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
126] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
127] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
128] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
129] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
130] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
131] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
132] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
133] 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
134] 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.
135] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
136] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
137] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
138] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
139] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
140] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
141] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
142] 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
143] 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
144] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
145] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
146] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
147] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
148] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
149] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
150] 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]
151] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
152] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
153] 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.
154] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
155] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
156] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
157] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
158] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
159] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
160] 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
161] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
162] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
163] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
164] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
165] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
166] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
167] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
168] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
169] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
170] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
171] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
172] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
173] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
174] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
175] 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)
176] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
177] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
178] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
179] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
180] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
181] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
182] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
183] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
184] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
185] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
186] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
187] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
188] 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
189] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
190] 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)
191] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
192] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
193] 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.
194] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
195] 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
196] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
197] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
198] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
199] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
200] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
201] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
202] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
203] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
204] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
205] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
206] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
207] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
208] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
209] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
210] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
211] 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.
212] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
213] 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.
214] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
215] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
216] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
217] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
218] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
219] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
220] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
221] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
222] 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)
223] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
224] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
225] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
226] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
227] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
228] 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
229] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
230] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
231] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
232] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
233] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
234] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
235] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
236] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
237] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
238] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
239] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
240] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
241] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
242] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
243] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
244] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
245] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
246] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
247] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
248] 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
249] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
250] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
251] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
252] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
253] 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
254] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
255] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
256] 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
257] 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.
258] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
259] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
260] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
261] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
262] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
263] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
264] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
265] 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
266] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
267] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
268] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
269] 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.
270] 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)
271] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
272] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
273] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
274] 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.
275] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
276] 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
277] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
278] 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.
279] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
280] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
281] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
282] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
283] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
284] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
285] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
286] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
287] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
288] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
289] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
290] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
291] 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
292] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
293] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
294] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
295] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
296] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
297] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
298] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
299] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
300] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
301] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
302] 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
303] 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.
304] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
305] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
306] 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
307] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
308] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
309] 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
310] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
311] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
312] 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.
313] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
314] 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
315] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
316] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
317] 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
318] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
319] 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
320] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
321] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
322] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
323] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
324] 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
325] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
326] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
327] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
328] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
329] 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)
330] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
331] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
332] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
333] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
334] 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
335] 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.
336] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
337] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
338] 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.
339] 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.
340] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
341] 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.
342] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
343] 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)
344] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
345] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
346] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
347] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
348] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
349] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
350] 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.
351] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
352] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
353] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
354] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
355] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
356] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
357] 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
358] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
359] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
360] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
361] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
362] 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.
363] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
364] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
365] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
366] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
367] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
368] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
369] 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
370] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
371] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
372] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
373] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
374] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
375] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
376] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
377] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
378] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
379] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
380] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
381] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
382] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
383] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
384] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
385] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
386] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
387] 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
388] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
389] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
390] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
391] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
392] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
393] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
394] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
395] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
396] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
397] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
398] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
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] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
401] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
402] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
403] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
404] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
405] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
406] 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.
407] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
408] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
409] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
410] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
411] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
412] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
413] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
414] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
415] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
416] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
417] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
418] 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.
419] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
420] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
421] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
422] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
423] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
424] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
425] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
426] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
427] 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.
428] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
429] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
430] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
431] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
432] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
433] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
434] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
435] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
436] 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)
437] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
438] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
439] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
440] 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
441] 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
442] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
443] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
444] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
445] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
446] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
447] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
448] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
449] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
450] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
451] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
452] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
453] 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.
454] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
455] 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
456] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
457] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
458] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
459] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
460] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
461] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
462] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
463] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
464] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
465] 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
466] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
467] 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
468] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
469] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
470] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
471] 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.
472] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
473] 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.
474] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
475] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
476] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
477] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
478] 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
479] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
480] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
481] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
482] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
483] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
484] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
485] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
486] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
487] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
488] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
489] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
490] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
491] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
492] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
493] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
494] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
495] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
496] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
497] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
498] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
499] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
500] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
501] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
502] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
503] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
504] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
505] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
506] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
507] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
508] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
509] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
510] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
511] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
512] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
513] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
514] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
515] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
516] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
517] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
518] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
519] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
520] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
521] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
522] 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.
523] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
524] 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.
525] 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
526] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
527] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
528] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
529] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
530] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
531] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
532] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
533] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
534] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
535] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
536] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
537] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
538] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
539] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
540] 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.
541] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
542] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
543] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
544] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
545] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
546] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
547] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
548] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
549] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
550] 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.
551] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
552] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
553] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
554] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
555] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
556] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
557] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
558] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
559] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
560] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
561] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
562] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
563] 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.
564] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
565] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
566] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
567] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
568] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
569] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
570] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
571] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
572] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
573] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
574] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
575] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
576] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
577] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
578] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
579] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
580] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
581] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
582] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
583] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
584] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
585] 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)
586] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
587] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
588] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
589] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
590] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
591] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
592] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
593] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
594] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
595] 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
596] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
597] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
598] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
599] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
600] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.