Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
3] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
4] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
5] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
6] 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
7] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
8] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
9] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
10] 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.
11] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
12] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
13] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
14] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
15] 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
16] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
17] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
18] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
19] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
20] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
21] 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
22] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
23] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
24] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
25] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
26] 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.
27] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
28] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
29] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
30] 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
31] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
32] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
33] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
34] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
35] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
36] 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 .
37] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
38] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
39] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
40] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
41] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
42] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
43] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
44] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
45] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
46] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
47] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
48] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
49] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
50] 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
51] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
52] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
53] 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
54] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
55] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
56] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
57] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
58] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
59] 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
60] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
61] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
62] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
63] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
64] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
65] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
66] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
67] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
68] Commonsense is not so common.
69] 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.
70] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
71] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
72] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
73] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
74] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
75] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
76] 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)
77] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
78] 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.
79] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
80] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
81] 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.
82] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
83] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
84] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
85] 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)
86] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
87] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
88] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
89] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
90] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
91] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
92] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
93] 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
94] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
95] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
96] 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
97] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
98] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
99] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
100] 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)
101] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
102] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
103] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
104] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
105] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
106] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
107] 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.
108] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
109] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
110] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
111] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
112] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
113] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
114] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
115] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
116] 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.
117] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
118] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
119] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
120] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
121] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
122] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
123] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
124] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
125] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
126] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
127] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
128] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
129] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
130] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
131] 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
132] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
133] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
134] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
135] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
136] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
137] 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.
138] 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.
139] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
140] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
141] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
142] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
143] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
144] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
145] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
146] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
147] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
148] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
149] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
150] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
151] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
152] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
153] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
154] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
155] 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.”
156] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
157] 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
158] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
159] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
160] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
161] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
162] 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.
163] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
164] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
165] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
166] 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.
167] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
168] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
169] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
170] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
171] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
172] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
173] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
174] 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
175] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
176] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
177] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
178] 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.
179] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
180] 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
181] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
182] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
183] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
184] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
185] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
186] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
187] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
188] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
189] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
190] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
191] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
192] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
193] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
194] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
195] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
196] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
197] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
198] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
199] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
200] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
201] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
202] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
203] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
204] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
205] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
206] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
207] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
208] 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.
209] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
210] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
211] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
212] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
213] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
214] 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
215] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
216] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
217] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
218] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
219] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
220] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
221] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
222] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
223] 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
224] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
225] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
226] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
227] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
228] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
229] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
230] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
231] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
232] 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)
233] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
234] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
235] 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.
236] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
237] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
238] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
239] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
240] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
241] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
242] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
243] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
244] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
245] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
246] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
247] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
248] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
249] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
250] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
251] 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
252] 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.
253] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
254] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
255] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
256] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
257] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
258] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
259] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
260] 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
261] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
262] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
263] 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)
264] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
265] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
266] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
267] 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
268] 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
269] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
270] 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]
271] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
272] 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.
273] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
274] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
275] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
276] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
277] 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)
278] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
279] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
280] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
281] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
282] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
283] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
284] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
285] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
286] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
287] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
288] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
289] 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
290] 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.
291] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
292] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
293] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
294] 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)
295] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
296] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
297] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
298] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
299] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
300] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
301] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
302] 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.
303] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
304] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
305] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
306] 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.
307] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
308] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
309] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
310] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
311] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
312] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
313] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
314] 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)
315] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
316] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
317] 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.
318] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
319] 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.
320] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
321] 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.
322] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
323] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
324] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
325] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
326] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
327] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
328] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
329] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
330] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
331] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
332] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
333] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
334] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
335] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
336] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
337] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
338] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
339] 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
340] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
341] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
342] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
343] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
344] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
345] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
347] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
348] 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.
349] 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.
350] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
351] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
352] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
353] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
354] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
355] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
357] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
358] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
359] 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.
360] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
361] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
362] 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.
363] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
364] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
365] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
366] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
367] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
368] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
369] 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
370] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
371] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
372] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
373] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
374] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
375] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
376] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
377] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
378] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
379] 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
380] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
381] 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
382] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
383] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
384] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
385] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
386] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
387] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
388] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
389] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
390] 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.
391] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
392] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
393] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
394] 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.
395] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
396] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
397] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
398] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
399] 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.
400] 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.
401] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
402] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
403] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
404] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
405] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
406] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
407] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
408] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
409] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
410] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
411] 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
412] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
413] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
414] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
415] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
416] 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
417] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
418] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
419] 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.
420] 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
421] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
422] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
423] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
424] 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.
425] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
426] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
427] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
428] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
429] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
430] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
431] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
432] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
433] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
434] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
435] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
436] 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.
437] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
438] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
439] 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.
440] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
441] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
442] 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.
443] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
444] 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)
445] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
446] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
447] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
448] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
449] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
450] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
451] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
452] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
453] 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.
454] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
455] 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
456] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
457] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
458] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
459] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
460] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
461] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
462] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
463] 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).
464] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
465] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
466] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
467] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
468] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
469] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
470] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
471] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
472] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
473] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
474] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
475] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
476] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
477] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
478] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
479] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
480] 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.
481] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
482] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
483] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
484] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
485] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
486] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
487] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
488] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
489] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
490] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
491] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
492] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
493] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
494] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
495] 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
496] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
497] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
498] 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.
499] 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.
500] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
501] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
502] 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)
503] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
504] 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.
505] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
506] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
507] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
508] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
509] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
510] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
511] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
512] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
513] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
514] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
515] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
516] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
517] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
518] 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
519] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
520] 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
521] 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.
522] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
523] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
524] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
525] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
526] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
527] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
528] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
529] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
530] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
531] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
532] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
533] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
534] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
535] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
536] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
538] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
539] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
540] 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.
541] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
542] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
543] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
544] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
545] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
546] 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
547] 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)
548] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
549] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
550] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
551] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
552] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
553] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
554] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
555] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
556] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
557] 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
558] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
559] 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 .
560] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
561] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
562] 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
563] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
564] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
565] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
566] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
567] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
568] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
569] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
570] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
571] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
572] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
573] 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
574] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
575] 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
576] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
577] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
578] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
579] 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)
580] 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)
581] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
582] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
583] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
584] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
585] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
586] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
587] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
588] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
589] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
590] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
591] 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.
592] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
593] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
594] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
595] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
596] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
597] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
598] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
599] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
600] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber