Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
2] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
3] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
4] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
5] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
6] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
7] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
8] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
9] 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.
10] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
11] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
12] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
13] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
14] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
15] 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.
16] 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)
17] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
18] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
19] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
20] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
21] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
22] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
23] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
24] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
25] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
26] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
27] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
28] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
29] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
30] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
31] 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.
32] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
33] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
34] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
35] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
36] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
37] 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.
38] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
39] 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
40] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
41] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
42] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
43] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
44] 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.
45] 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
46] 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.
47] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
48] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
49] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
50] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
51] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
52] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
53] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
54] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
55] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
56] 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
57] 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.
58] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
59] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
60] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
61] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
62] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
63] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
64] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
65] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
66] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
67] 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.
68] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
69] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
70] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
71] 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.
72] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
73] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
74] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
75] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
76] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
77] 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.
78] 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)
79] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
80] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
81] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
82] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
83] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
84] 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.”
85] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
86] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
87] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
88] 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)
89] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
90] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
91] 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
92] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
93] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
94] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
95] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
96] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
97] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
98] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
99] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
100] Commonsense is not so common.
101] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
102] 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.
103] 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.
104] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
105] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
106] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
107] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
108] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
109] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
110] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
111] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
112] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
113] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
114] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
115] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
116] 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.
117] 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
118] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
119] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
120] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
121] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
122] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
123] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
124] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
125] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
126] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
127] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
128] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
129] 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.
130] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
131] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
132] 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
133] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
134] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
135] 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.
136] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
137] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
138] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
139] 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
140] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
141] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
142] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
143] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
144] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
145] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
146] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
147] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
148] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
149] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
150] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
151] 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.
152] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
153] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
154] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
155] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
156] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
157] 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.
158] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
159] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
160] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
161] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
162] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
163] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
164] 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.
165] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
166] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
167] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
168] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
169] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
170] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
171] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
172] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
173] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
174] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
175] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
176] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
177] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
178] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
179] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
180] 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)
181] 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
182] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
183] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
184] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
185] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
186] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
187] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
188] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
189] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
190] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
191] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
192] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
193] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
194] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
195] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
196] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
197] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
198] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
199] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
200] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
201] 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.
202] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
203] 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)
204] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
205] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
206] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
207] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
208] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
209] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
210] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
211] 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.
212] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
213] 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.
214] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
215] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
216] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
217] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
218] 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
219] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
220] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
221] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
222] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
223] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
224] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
225] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
226] 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.
227] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
228] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
229] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
230] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
231] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
232] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
233] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
234] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
235] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
236] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
237] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
238] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
239] 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.
240] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
241] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
242] 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)
243] 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.
244] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
245] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
246] 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.
247] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
248] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
249] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
250] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
251] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
252] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
253] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
254] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
255] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
256] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
257] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
258] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
259] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
260] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
261] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
262] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
263] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
264] 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.
265] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
266] 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
267] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
268] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
269] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
270] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
271] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
272] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
273] 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)
274] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
275] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
276] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
277] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
278] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
279] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
280] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
281] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
282] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
283] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
284] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
285] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
286] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
287] 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
288] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
289] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
290] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
291] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
292] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
293] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
294] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
295] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
296] 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
297] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
298] 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.
299] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
300] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
301] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
302] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
303] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
304] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
305] 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.
306] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
308] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
309] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
310] 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
311] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
312] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
313] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
314] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
315] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
316] 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
317] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
318] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
319] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
320] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
321] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
322] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
323] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
324] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
325] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
326] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
327] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
328] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
329] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
330] 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
331] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
332] 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
333] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
334] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
335] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
336] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
337] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
338] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
339] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
340] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
341] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
342] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
343] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
344] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
345] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
346] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
347] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
348] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
349] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
350] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
351] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
352] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
353] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
354] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
355] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
357] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
358] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
359] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
360] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
361] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
362] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
363] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
364] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
365] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
366] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
367] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
368] 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)
369] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
370] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
371] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
372] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
373] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
374] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
375] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
376] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
377] 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.
378] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
379] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
380] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
381] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
382] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
383] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
384] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
385] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
386] 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
387] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
388] 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)
389] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
390] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
391] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
392] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
393] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
394] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
395] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
396] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
397] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
398] 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
399] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
400] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
401] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
402] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
403] 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.
404] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
405] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
406] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
407] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
408] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
409] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
410] 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.
411] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
412] 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.
413] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
414] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
415] 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.
416] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
417] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
418] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
419] 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
420] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
421] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
422] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
423] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
424] 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)
425] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
426] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
427] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
428] 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)
429] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
430] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
431] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
432] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
433] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
434] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
435] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
436] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
437] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
438] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
439] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
440] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
441] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
442] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
443] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
444] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
445] 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
446] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
447] 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.
448] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
449] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
450] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
451] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
452] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
453] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
454] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
455] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
456] 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
457] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
458] 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.
459] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
460] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
461] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
462] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
463] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
464] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
465] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
466] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
467] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
468] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
469] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
470] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
471] 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
472] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
473] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
474] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
475] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
476] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
477] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
478] 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)
479] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
480] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
481] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
482] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
483] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
484] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
485] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
486] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
487] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
488] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
489] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
490] 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 .
491] 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
492] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
493] 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
494] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
495] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
496] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
497] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
498] 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
499] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
500] 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
501] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
502] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
503] 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.
504] 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)
505] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
506] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
507] 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.
508] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
509] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
510] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
511] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
512] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
513] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
514] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
515] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
516] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
517] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
518] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
519] 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
520] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
521] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
522] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
523] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
524] 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.
525] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
526] 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)
527] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
528] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
529] 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.
530] 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
531] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
532] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
533] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
534] 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
535] 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).
536] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
537] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
538] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
539] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
540] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
541] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
542] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
543] 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
544] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
545] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
546] 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.
547] 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.
548] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
549] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
550] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
551] 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]
552] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
553] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
554] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
555] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
556] 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.
557] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
558] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
559] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
560] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
561] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
562] 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.
563] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
564] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
565] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
566] 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
567] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
568] 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.
569] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
570] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
571] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
572] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
573] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
574] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
575] 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)
576] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
577] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
578] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
579] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
580] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
581] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
582] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
583] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
584] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
585] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
586] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
587] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
588] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
589] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
590] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
591] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
592] 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.
593] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
594] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
595] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
596] 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
597] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
598] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
599] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
600] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz