Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
2] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
3] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
4] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
5] 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.
6] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
7] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
8] 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
9] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
10] 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.
11] 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
12] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
13] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
14] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
15] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
16] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
17] 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.
18] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
19] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
20] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
21] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
22] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
23] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
24] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
25] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
26] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
27] 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.
28] 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).
29] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
30] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
31] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
32] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
33] 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
34] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
35] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
36] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
37] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
38] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
39] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
40] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
41] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
42] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
43] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
44] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
45] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
46] 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)
47] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
48] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
49] 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
50] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
51] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
52] 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)
53] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
54] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
55] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
56] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
57] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
58] 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.
59] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
60] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
61] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
62] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
63] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
64] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
65] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
66] 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
67] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
68] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
69] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
70] 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.
71] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
72] 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.
73] 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.
74] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
75] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
76] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
77] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
78] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
79] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
80] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
81] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
82] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
83] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
84] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
85] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
86] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
87] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
88] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
89] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
90] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
91] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
92] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
93] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
94] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
95] 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.
96] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
97] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
98] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
99] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
100] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
101] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
102] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
103] 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.
104] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
105] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
106] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
107] 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
108] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
109] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
110] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
111] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
112] 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
113] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
114] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
115] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
116] 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
117] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
118] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
119] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
120] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
121] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
122] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
123] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
124] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
125] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
126] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
127] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
128] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
129] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
130] 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.
131] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
132] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
133] 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.
134] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
135] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
136] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
137] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
138] 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
139] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
140] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
141] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
142] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
143] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
144] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
145] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
146] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
147] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
148] 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.
149] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
150] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
151] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
152] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
153] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
154] 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
155] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
156] 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.
157] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
158] 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)
159] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
160] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
161] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
162] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
163] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
164] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
165] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
166] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
167] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
168] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
169] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
170] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
171] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
172] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
173] 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
174] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
175] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
176] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
177] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
178] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
179] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
180] 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.
181] 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
182] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
183] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
184] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
185] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
186] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
187] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
188] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
189] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
190] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
191] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
192] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
193] 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.
194] 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.
195] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
196] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
197] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
198] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
199] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
200] 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
201] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
202] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
203] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
204] 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.
205] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
206] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
207] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
208] 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
209] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
210] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
211] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
212] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
213] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
214] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
215] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
216] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
217] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
218] 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
219] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
220] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
221] 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.
222] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
223] 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.
224] 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.
225] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
226] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
227] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
228] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
229] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
230] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
231] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
232] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
233] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
234] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
235] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
236] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
237] 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.
238] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
239] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
240] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
242] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
243] 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
244] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
245] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
246] 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
247] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
248] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
249] 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.
250] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
251] 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.
252] 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
253] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
254] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
255] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
256] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
257] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
258] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
259] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
260] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
261] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
262] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
263] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
264] 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
265] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
266] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
267] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
268] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
269] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
270] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
271] 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
272] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
273] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
274] 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)
275] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
276] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
277] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
278] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
279] 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.
280] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
281] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
282] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
283] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
284] 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)
285] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
286] 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
287] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
288] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
289] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
290] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
291] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
292] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
293] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
294] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
295] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
296] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
297] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
298] 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)
299] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
300] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
301] 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.
302] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
303] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
304] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
305] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
306] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
307] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
308] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
309] 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
310] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
311] 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
312] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
313] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
314] 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
315] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
316] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
317] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
318] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
319] 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.
320] 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.
321] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
322] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
323] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
324] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
325] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
326] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
327] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
328] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
329] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
330] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
331] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
332] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
333] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
334] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
335] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
336] 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).
337] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
338] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
339] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
340] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
341] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
342] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
343] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
344] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
345] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
346] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
347] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
348] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
349] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
350] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
351] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
352] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
353] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
354] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
355] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
356] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
357] 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
358] 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.
359] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
360] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
361] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
362] 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)
363] 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)
364] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
365] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
366] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
367] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
368] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
369] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
370] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
371] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
372] 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)
373] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
374] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
375] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
376] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
377] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
378] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
379] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
380] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
381] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
382] 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.
383] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
384] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
385] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
386] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
387] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
388] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
389] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
390] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
391] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
392] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
393] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
394] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
395] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
396] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
397] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
398] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
399] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
400] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
401] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
402] 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.
403] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
404] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
405] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
406] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
407] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
408] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
409] 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.
410] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
411] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
412] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
413] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
414] 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)
415] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
416] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
417] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
418] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
419] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
420] 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
421] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
422] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
423] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
424] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
425] 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)
426] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
427] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
428] 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.
429] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
430] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
431] 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
432] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
433] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
434] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
435] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
436] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
437] 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.
438] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
439] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
440] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
441] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
442] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
443] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
444] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
445] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
446] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
447] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
448] 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)
449] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
450] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
451] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
452] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
453] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
454] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
455] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
456] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
457] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
458] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
459] 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.
460] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
461] 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.
462] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
463] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
464] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
465] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
466] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
467] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
468] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
469] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
470] 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
471] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
472] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
473] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
474] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
475] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
476] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
477] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
478] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
479] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
480] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
481] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
482] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
483] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
484] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
485] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
486] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
487] 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
488] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
489] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
490] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
491] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
492] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
493] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
494] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
495] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
496] 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)
497] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
498] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
499] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
500] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
501] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
502] 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
503] 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.
504] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
505] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
506] 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
507] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
508] 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.
509] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
510] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
511] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
512] 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
513] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
514] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
515] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
516] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
517] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
518] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
519] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
520] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
521] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
522] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
523] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
524] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
525] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
526] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
527] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
528] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
529] 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
530] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
531] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
532] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
533] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
534] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
535] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
536] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
537] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
538] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
539] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
540] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
541] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
542] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
543] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
544] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
545] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
546] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
547] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
548] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
549] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
550] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
551] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
552] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
553] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
554] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
555] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
556] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
557] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
558] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
559] 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.
560] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
561] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
562] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
563] 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
564] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
565] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
566] 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
567] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
568] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
569] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
570] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
571] 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.
572] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
573] 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
574] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
575] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
576] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
577] 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)
578] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
579] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
580] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
581] 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.
582] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
583] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
584] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
585] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
586] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
587] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
588] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
589] 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
590] 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.
591] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
592] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
593] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
594] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
595] 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.
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] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
598] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
599] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
600] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger