Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
2] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
3] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
4] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
5] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
6] 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.
7] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
8] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
9] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
10] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
11] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
12] 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.
13] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
14] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
15] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
16] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
17] 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
18] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
19] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
20] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
21] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
22] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
23] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
24] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
25] 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.
26] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
27] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
28] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
29] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
30] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
31] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
32] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
33] 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.
34] 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.
35] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
36] 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
37] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
38] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
39] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
40] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
41] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
42] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
43] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
44] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
45] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
46] 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
47] 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)
48] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
49] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
50] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
51] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
52] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
53] 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.
54] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
55] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
56] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
57] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
58] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
59] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
60] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
61] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
62] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
63] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
64] 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)
65] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
66] 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.
67] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
68] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
69] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
70] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
71] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
72] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
73] 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.”
74] 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
75] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
76] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
77] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
78] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
79] 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)
80] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
81] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
82] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
83] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
84] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
85] 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.
86] 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.
87] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
88] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
89] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
90] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
91] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
92] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
93] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
94] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
95] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
96] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
97] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
98] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
99] 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.
100] 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
101] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
102] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
103] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
104] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
105] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
106] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
107] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
108] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
109] 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.
110] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
111] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
112] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
113] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
114] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
115] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
116] 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.
117] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
118] 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.
119] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
120] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
121] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
122] 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]
123] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
124] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
125] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
126] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
127] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
128] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
129] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
130] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
131] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
132] 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.
133] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
134] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
135] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
136] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
137] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
138] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
139] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
140] 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.
141] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
142] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
143] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
144] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
145] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
146] 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
147] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
148] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
149] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
150] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
151] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
152] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
153] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
154] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
155] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
156] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
157] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
158] 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
159] 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.
160] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
161] 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
162] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
163] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
164] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
165] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
166] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
167] 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.
168] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
169] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
170] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
171] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
172] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
173] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
174] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
175] 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.
176] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
177] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
178] 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
179] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
180] 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)
181] 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.
182] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
183] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
184] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
185] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
186] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
187] 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
188] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
189] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
190] 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.
191] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
192] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
193] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
194] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
195] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
196] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
197] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
198] 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.
199] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
200] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
201] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
202] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
203] 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 .
204] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
205] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
206] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
207] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
208] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
209] 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
210] 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).
211] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
212] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
213] 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.
214] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
215] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
216] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
217] 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
218] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
219] 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)
220] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
221] 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)
222] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
223] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
224] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
225] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
226] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
227] 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.
228] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
229] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
230] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
231] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
232] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
233] 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.
234] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
235] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
236] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
237] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
238] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
239] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
240] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
241] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
242] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
243] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
244] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
245] 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
246] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
247] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
248] 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
249] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
250] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
251] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
252] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
253] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
254] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
255] 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.
256] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
257] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
258] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
259] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
260] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
261] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
262] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
263] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
264] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
265] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
266] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
267] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
268] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
269] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
270] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
271] 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.
272] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
273] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
274] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
275] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
276] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
277] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
278] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
279] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
280] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
281] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
282] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
283] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
284] 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
285] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
286] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
287] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
288] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
289] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
290] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
291] 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
292] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
293] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
294] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
295] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
296] 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
297] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
298] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
299] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
300] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
301] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
302] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
303] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
304] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
305] 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.
306] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
307] 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.
308] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
309] 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.
310] 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)
311] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
312] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
313] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
314] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
315] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
316] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
317] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
318] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
319] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
320] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
321] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
322] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
323] 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.
324] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
325] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
326] 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
327] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
328] 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.
329] 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.
330] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
331] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
332] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
333] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
334] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
335] 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
336] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
337] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
338] 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
339] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
340] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
341] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
342] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
343] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
344] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
345] 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.
346] 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.
347] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
348] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
349] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
350] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
351] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
352] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
353] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
354] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
355] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
356] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
357] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
358] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
359] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
360] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
361] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
362] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
363] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
364] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
365] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
366] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
367] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
368] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
369] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
370] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
371] 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.
372] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
373] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
374] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
375] 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
376] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
377] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
378] 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
379] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
380] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
381] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
382] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
383] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
384] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
385] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
386] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
387] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
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] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
390] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
391] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
392] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
393] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
394] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
395] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
396] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
397] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
398] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
399] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
400] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
401] 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
402] 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)
403] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
404] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
405] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
406] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
407] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
408] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
409] 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
410] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
411] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
412] 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.
413] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
414] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
415] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
416] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
417] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
418] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
419] Commonsense is not so common.
420] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
421] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
422] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
423] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
424] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
425] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
426] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
427] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
428] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
429] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
430] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
431] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
432] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
433] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
434] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
435] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
436] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
437] 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)
438] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
439] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
440] 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
441] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
442] 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
443] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
444] 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.
445] 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
446] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
447] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
448] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
449] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
450] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
451] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
452] 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.
453] 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.
454] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
455] 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
456] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
457] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
458] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
459] 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)
460] 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.
461] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
462] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
463] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
464] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
465] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
466] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
467] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] 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.
469] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
470] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
471] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
472] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
473] 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).
474] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
475] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
476] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
477] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
478] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
479] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
480] 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
481] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
482] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
483] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
484] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
485] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
486] 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.
487] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
488] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
489] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
490] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
491] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
492] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
493] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
494] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
495] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
496] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
497] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
498] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
499] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
500] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
501] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
502] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
503] 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.
504] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
505] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
506] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
507] 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.
508] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
509] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
510] 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 .
511] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
512] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
513] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
514] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
515] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
516] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
517] 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.
518] 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
519] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
520] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
521] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
522] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
523] 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.
524] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
525] 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)
526] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
527] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
528] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
529] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
530] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
531] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
532] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
533] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
534] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
535] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
536] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
537] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
538] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
539] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
540] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
541] 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.”
542] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
543] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
544] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
545] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
546] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
547] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
548] 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.
549] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
550] 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)
551] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
552] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
553] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
554] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
555] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
556] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
557] 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
558] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
559] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
560] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
561] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
562] 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.
563] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
564] 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.
565] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
566] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
567] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
568] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
569] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
570] 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.
571] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
572] 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
573] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
574] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
575] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
576] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
577] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
578] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
579] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
581] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
582] 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.
583] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
584] 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.
585] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
586] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
587] 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
588] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
589] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
590] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
591] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
592] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
593] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
594] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
595] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
596] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
597] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
598] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
599] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
600] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)