Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
2] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
3] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
4] 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.
5] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
6] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
7] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
8] 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.
9] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
10] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
11] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
12] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
13] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
14] 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.
15] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
16] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
17] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
18] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
19] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
20] 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)
21] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
22] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
23] 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
24] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
25] 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)
26] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
27] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
28] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
29] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
30] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
31] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
32] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
33] 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.
34] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
35] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
36] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
37] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
38] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
39] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
40] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
41] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
42] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
43] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
44] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
45] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
46] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
47] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
48] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
49] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
50] 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
51] 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.
52] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
53] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
54] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
55] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
56] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
57] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
58] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
59] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
60] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
61] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
62] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
63] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
64] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
65] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
66] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
67] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
68] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
69] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
70] 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
71] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
72] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
73] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
74] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
75] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
76] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
77] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
78] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
79] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
80] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
81] 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.
82] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
83] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
84] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
85] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
86] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
87] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
88] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
89] 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.
90] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
91] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
92] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
93] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
94] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
95] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
96] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] 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.
98] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
99] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
100] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
101] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
102] 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)
103] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
104] 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
105] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
106] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
107] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
108] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
109] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
110] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
111] 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
112] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
113] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
114] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
115] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
116] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
117] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
118] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
119] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
120] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
121] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
122] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
123] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
124] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
125] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
126] 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]
127] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
128] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
129] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
130] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
131] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
132] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
133] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
134] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
135] 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
136] 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.
137] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
138] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
139] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
140] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
141] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
142] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
143] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
144] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
145] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
146] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
147] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
148] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
149] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
150] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
151] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
152] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
153] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
154] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
155] 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)
156] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
157] 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
158] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
159] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
160] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
161] 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.
162] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
163] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
164] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
165] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
166] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
167] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
168] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
169] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
170] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
171] 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
172] 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.
173] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
174] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
175] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
176] 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.
177] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
178] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
179] 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.
180] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
181] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
182] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
183] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
184] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
185] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
186] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
187] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
188] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
189] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
190] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
191] 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.
192] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
193] 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
194] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
195] 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
196] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
197] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
198] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
199] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
200] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
201] 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
202] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
203] 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
204] 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.
205] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
206] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
207] 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
208] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
209] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
210] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
211] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
212] 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.
213] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
214] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
215] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
216] 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)
217] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
218] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
219] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
220] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
221] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
222] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
223] 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.
224] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
225] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
226] 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
227] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
228] 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.
229] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
230] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
231] 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.
232] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
233] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
234] 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.
235] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
236] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
237] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
238] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
239] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
240] 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.
241] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
242] Commonsense is not so common.
243] 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
244] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
245] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
246] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
247] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
248] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
249] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
250] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
251] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
252] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
253] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
254] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
255] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
256] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
257] 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.”
258] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
259] 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
260] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
261] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
262] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
263] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
264] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
265] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
266] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
267] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
268] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
269] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
270] 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)
271] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
272] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
273] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
274] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
275] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
276] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
277] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
278] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
279] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
280] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
281] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
282] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
283] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
284] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
285] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
286] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
287] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
288] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
289] 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
290] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
291] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
292] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
293] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
294] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
295] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
296] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
297] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
298] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
299] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
300] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
301] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
302] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
303] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
304] 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.
305] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
306] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
307] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
308] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
309] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
310] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
311] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
312] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
313] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
314] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
315] 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
316] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
317] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
318] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
319] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
320] 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)
321] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
322] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
323] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
324] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
325] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
326] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
327] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
328] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
329] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
330] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
331] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
332] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
333] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
334] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
335] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
336] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
337] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
338] 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.
339] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
340] 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
341] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
342] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
343] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
344] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
345] 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.
346] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
347] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
348] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
349] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
350] 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
351] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
352] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
353] 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.
354] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
355] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
356] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
357] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
358] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
359] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
360] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
361] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
362] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
363] 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.
364] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
365] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
366] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
367] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
368] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
369] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
370] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
371] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
372] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
373] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
374] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
375] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
376] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
377] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
378] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
379] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
380] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
381] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
382] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
383] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
384] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
385] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
386] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
387] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
388] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
389] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
390] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
391] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
392] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
393] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
394] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
395] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
396] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
397] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
398] 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
399] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
400] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
401] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
402] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
403] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
404] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
405] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
406] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
407] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
408] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
409] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
410] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
411] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
412] 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
413] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
414] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
415] 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)
416] 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
417] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
418] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
419] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
420] 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
421] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
422] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
423] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
424] 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.
425] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
426] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
427] 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.
428] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
429] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
430] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
431] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
432] 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
433] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
434] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
435] 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
436] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
437] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
438] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
439] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
440] 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.
441] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
442] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
443] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
444] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
445] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
446] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
447] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
448] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
449] 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
450] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
451] 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.
452] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
453] 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.
454] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
455] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
456] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
457] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
458] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
459] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
460] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
461] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
462] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
463] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
464] 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.
465] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
466] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
467] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
468] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
469] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
470] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
471] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
472] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
473] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
474] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
475] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
476] 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.
477] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
478] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
479] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
480] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
481] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
482] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
483] 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
484] 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.
485] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
486] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
487] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
488] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
489] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
490] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
491] 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)
492] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
493] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
494] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
495] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
496] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
497] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
498] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
499] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
500] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
501] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
502] 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.
503] 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
504] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
505] 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).
506] 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
507] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
508] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
509] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
510] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
511] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
512] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
513] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
514] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
515] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
516] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
517] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
518] 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.
519] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
520] 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
521] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
522] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
523] 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.
524] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
525] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
526] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
527] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
528] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
529] 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
530] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
531] 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.
532] 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.
533] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
534] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
535] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
536] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
537] 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.
538] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
539] 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.
540] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
541] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
542] 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)
543] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
544] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
545] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
546] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
547] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
548] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
549] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
550] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
551] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
552] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
553] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
554] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
555] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
556] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
557] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
558] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
559] 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.
560] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
561] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
562] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
563] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
564] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
565] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
566] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
567] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
568] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
569] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
570] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
571] 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
572] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
573] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
574] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
575] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
576] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
577] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
578] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
579] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
580] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
581] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
582] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
583] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
584] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
585] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
586] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
587] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
588] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
589] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
590] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
591] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
592] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
593] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
594] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
595] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
596] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
597] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
598] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
599] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
600] 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).