Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
3] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
4] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
5] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
6] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
7] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
8] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
9] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
10] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
11] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
12] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
13] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
14] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
15] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
16] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
17] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
18] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
19] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
20] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
21] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
22] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
23] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
24] 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)
25] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
26] 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.
27] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
28] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
29] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
30] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
31] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
32] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
33] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
34] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
35] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
36] 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.
37] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
38] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
39] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
40] 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
41] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
42] 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
43] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
44] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
45] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
46] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
47] 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)
48] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
49] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
50] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
51] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
52] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
53] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
54] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
55] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
56] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
57] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
58] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
59] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
60] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
61] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
62] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
63] 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)
64] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
65] 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.
66] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
67] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
68] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
69] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
70] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
71] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
72] 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)
73] 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.
74] 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.
75] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
76] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
77] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
78] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
79] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
80] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
81] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
82] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
83] 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
84] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
85] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
86] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
87] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
88] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
89] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
90] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
91] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
92] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
93] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
94] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
95] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
96] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
97] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
98] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
99] Commonsense is not so common.
100] 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.
101] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
102] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
103] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
104] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
105] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
106] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
107] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
108] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
109] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
110] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
111] 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.
112] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
113] 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
114] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
115] 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
116] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
117] 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.
118] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
119] Commonsense is not so common.
120] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
121] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
122] 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.
123] 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
124] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
125] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
126] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
127] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
128] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
129] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
130] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
131] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
132] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
133] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
134] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
135] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
136] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
137] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
138] 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.
139] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
140] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
141] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
142] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
143] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
144] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
145] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
146] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
147] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
148] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
149] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
150] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
151] 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
152] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
153] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
154] 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
155] 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
156] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
157] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
158] 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
159] 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
160] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
161] 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
162] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
163] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
164] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
165] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
166] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
167] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
168] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
169] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
170] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
171] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
172] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
173] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
174] 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
175] 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.
176] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
177] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
178] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
179] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
180] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
181] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
182] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
183] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
184] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
185] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
186] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
187] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
188] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
189] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
190] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
191] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
192] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
193] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
194] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
195] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
196] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
197] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
198] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
199] 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.
200] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
201] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
202] 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.
203] 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
204] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
205] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
206] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
207] 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)
208] 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
209] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
210] 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.
211] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
212] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
213] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
214] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
215] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
216] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
217] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
218] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
219] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
220] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
221] 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.
222] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
223] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
224] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
225] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
226] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
227] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
228] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
229] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
230] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
231] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
232] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
233] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
234] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
235] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
236] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
237] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
238] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
239] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
240] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
241] 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.
242] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
243] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
244] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
245] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
246] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
247] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
248] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
249] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
250] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
251] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
252] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
253] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
254] 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
255] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
256] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
257] 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
258] 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
259] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
260] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
261] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
262] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
263] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
264] 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.
265] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
266] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
267] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
268] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
269] 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.
270] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
271] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
272] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
273] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
274] 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.
275] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
276] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
277] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
278] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
279] 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
280] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
281] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
282] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
283] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
284] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
285] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
286] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
287] 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)
288] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
289] 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
290] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
291] 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.
292] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
293] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
294] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
295] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
296] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
297] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
298] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
299] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
300] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
301] 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.
302] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
303] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
304] 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
305] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
306] 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.
307] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
308] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
309] 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.
310] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
311] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
312] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
313] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
314] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
315] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
316] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
317] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
318] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
319] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
320] 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.
321] 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.
322] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
323] 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.
324] 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.
325] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
326] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
327] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
328] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
329] 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)
330] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
331] 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
332] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
333] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
334] 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
335] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
336] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
337] 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.
338] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
339] 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]
340] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
341] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
342] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
343] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
344] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
345] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
346] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
347] 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)
348] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
349] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
350] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
351] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
352] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
353] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
354] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
355] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
356] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
357] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
358] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
359] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
360] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
361] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
362] 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
363] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
364] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
365] 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
366] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
367] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
368] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
369] 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.
370] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
371] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
372] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] 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.”
374] 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)
375] 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.
376] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
377] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
378] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
379] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
380] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
381] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
382] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
383] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
384] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
385] 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.
386] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
387] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
388] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
389] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
390] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
391] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
392] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
393] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
394] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
395] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
396] 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
397] 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
398] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
399] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
400] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
401] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
402] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
403] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
404] 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)
405] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
406] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
407] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
408] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
409] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
410] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
411] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
412] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
413] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
414] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
415] 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
416] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
417] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
418] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
419] 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)
420] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
421] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
422] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
423] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
424] 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
425] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
426] 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.
427] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
428] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
429] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
430] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
431] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
432] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
433] 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.
434] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
435] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
436] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
437] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
438] 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.
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] 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.
441] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
442] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
443] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
444] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
445] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
446] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
447] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
448] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
449] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
450] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
451] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
452] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
453] 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.
454] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
455] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
456] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
457] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
458] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
459] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
460] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
461] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
462] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
463] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
464] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
465] 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.
466] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
467] 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.
468] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
469] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
470] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
471] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
472] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
473] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
474] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
475] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
476] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
477] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
478] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
479] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
480] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
481] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
482] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
483] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
484] 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
485] 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.
486] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
487] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
488] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
489] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
490] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
491] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
492] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
493] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
494] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
495] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
496] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
497] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
498] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
499] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
500] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
501] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
502] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
503] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
504] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
505] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
506] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
507] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
508] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
509] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
510] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
511] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
512] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
513] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
514] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
515] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
516] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
517] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
518] 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
519] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
520] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
521] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
522] 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
523] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
524] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
525] 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.
526] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
527] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
528] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
529] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
530] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
531] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
532] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
533] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
534] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
535] 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
536] 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)
537] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
538] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
539] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
540] 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)
541] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
542] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
543] 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
544] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
545] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
546] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
547] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
548] 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)
549] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
550] 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)
551] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
552] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
553] 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.
554] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
555] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
556] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
557] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
558] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
559] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
560] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
561] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
562] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
563] 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).
564] 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.
565] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
566] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
567] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
568] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
569] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
570] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
571] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
572] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
573] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
574] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
575] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
576] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
577] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
578] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
579] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
580] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
581] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
582] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
583] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
584] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
585] 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
586] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
587] 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
588] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
589] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
590] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
591] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
592] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
593] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
594] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
595] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
596] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
597] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
598] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
599] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
600] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.