Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
2] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
3] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
4] 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.
5] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
6] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
7] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
8] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
9] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
10] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
11] 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.
12] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
13] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
14] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
15] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
16] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
17] 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.
18] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
19] 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
20] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
21] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
22] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
23] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
24] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
25] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
26] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
27] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
28] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
29] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
30] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
31] 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.
32] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
33] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
34] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
35] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
36] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
37] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
38] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
39] 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)
40] 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.
41] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
42] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
43] 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 .
44] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
45] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
46] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
47] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
48] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
49] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
50] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
51] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
52] 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)
53] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
54] 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.
55] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
56] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
57] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
58] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
59] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
60] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
61] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
62] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
63] 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)
64] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
65] 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.
66] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
67] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
68] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
69] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
70] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
71] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
72] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
73] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
74] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
75] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
76] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
77] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
78] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
79] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
80] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
81] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
82] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
83] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
84] 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.
85] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
86] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
87] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
88] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
89] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
90] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
91] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
92] 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)
93] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
94] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
95] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
96] 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.
97] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
98] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
99] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
100] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
101] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
102] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
103] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
104] 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.
105] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
106] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
107] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
108] 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.
109] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
110] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
111] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
112] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
113] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
114] 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.
115] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
116] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
117] 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.
118] 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.
119] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
120] 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)
121] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
122] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
123] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
124] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
125] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
126] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
127] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
128] 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
129] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
130] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
131] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
132] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
133] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
134] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
135] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
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] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
138] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
139] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
140] 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
141] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
142] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
143] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
144] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
145] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
146] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
147] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
148] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
149] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
150] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
151] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
152] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
153] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
154] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
155] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
156] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
157] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
158] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
159] 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
160] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
161] 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.
162] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
163] 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
164] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
165] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
166] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
167] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
168] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
169] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
170] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
171] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
172] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
173] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
174] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
175] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
176] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
177] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
178] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
179] 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.
180] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
181] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
182] 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)
183] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
184] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
185] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
186] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
187] 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.
188] 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)
189] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
190] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
191] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
192] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
193] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
194] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
195] 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.
196] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
197] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
198] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
199] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
200] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
201] 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.
202] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
203] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
204] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
205] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
206] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
207] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
208] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
209] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
210] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
211] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
212] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
213] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
214] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
215] 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.
216] 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.
217] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
218] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
219] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
220] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
221] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
222] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
223] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
224] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
225] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
226] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
227] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
228] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
229] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
230] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
231] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
232] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
233] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
234] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
235] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
236] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
237] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
238] 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.
239] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
240] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
241] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
242] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
243] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
244] 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)
245] 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
246] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
247] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
248] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
249] 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.
250] 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.
251] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
252] 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)
253] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
254] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
255] 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.
256] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
257] 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.
258] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
259] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
260] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
261] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
262] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
263] 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
264] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
265] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
266] 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
267] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
268] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
269] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
270] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
271] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
272] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
273] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
274] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
275] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
276] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
277] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
278] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
279] 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)
280] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
281] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
282] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
283] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
284] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
285] 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)
286] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
287] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
288] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
289] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
290] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
291] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
292] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
293] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
294] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
295] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
296] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
297] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
298] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
299] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
300] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
301] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
302] 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)
303] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
304] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
305] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
306] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
307] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
308] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
309] 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.
310] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
311] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
312] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
313] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
314] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
315] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
316] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
317] 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)
318] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
319] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
320] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
321] 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
322] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
323] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
324] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
325] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
326] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
327] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
328] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
329] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
330] 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
331] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
332] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
333] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
334] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
335] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
336] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
337] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
338] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
339] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
340] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
341] 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)
342] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
343] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
344] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
345] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
346] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
347] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
348] 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
349] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
350] 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
351] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
352] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
353] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
354] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
355] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
356] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
357] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
358] 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
359] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
360] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
361] 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.
362] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
363] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
364] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
365] 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.
366] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
367] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
368] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
369] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
370] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
371] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
372] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
373] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
374] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
375] 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)
376] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
377] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
378] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
379] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
380] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
381] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
382] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
383] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
384] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
385] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
386] 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.
387] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
388] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
389] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
390] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
391] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
392] 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
393] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
394] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
395] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
396] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
397] 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
398] 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
399] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
400] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
401] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
402] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
403] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
404] 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.
405] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
406] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
407] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
408] 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.
409] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
410] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
411] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
412] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
413] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
414] 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.
415] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
416] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
417] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
418] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
419] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
420] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
421] 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.
422] 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.
423] 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.
424] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
425] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
426] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
427] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
428] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
429] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
430] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
431] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
432] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
433] 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
434] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
435] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
436] 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
437] 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.
438] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
439] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
440] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
441] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
442] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
443] 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
444] 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
445] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
446] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
447] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
448] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
449] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
450] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
451] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
452] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
453] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
454] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
455] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
456] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
457] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
458] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
459] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
460] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
461] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
462] 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
463] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] 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
465] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
466] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
467] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
468] 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.
469] 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
470] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
471] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
472] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
473] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
474] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
475] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
476] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
477] 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 .
478] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
479] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
480] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
481] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
482] 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
483] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
484] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
485] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
486] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
487] 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)
488] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
489] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
490] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
491] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
492] 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
493] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
494] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
495] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
496] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
497] 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
498] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
499] 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
500] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
501] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
502] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
503] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
504] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
505] 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)
506] 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.
507] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
508] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
509] 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
510] 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
511] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
512] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
513] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
514] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
515] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
516] 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
517] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
518] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
519] 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
520] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
521] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
522] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
523] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
524] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
525] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
526] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
527] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
528] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
529] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
530] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
531] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
532] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
533] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
534] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
535] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
536] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
537] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
538] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
539] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
540] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
541] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
542] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
543] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
544] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
545] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
546] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
547] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
548] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
549] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
550] 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)
551] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
552] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
553] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
554] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
555] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
556] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
557] 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.
558] 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.
559] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
560] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
561] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
562] 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.
563] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
564] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
565] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
566] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
567] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
568] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
569] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
570] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
571] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
572] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
573] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
574] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
575] 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
576] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
577] 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.
578] 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.
579] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
580] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
581] 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.
582] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
583] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
584] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
585] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
586] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
587] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
588] 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.
589] 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
590] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
591] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
592] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
593] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
594] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
595] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
596] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
597] 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
598] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
599] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
600] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson