Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
2] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
3] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
4] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
5] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
6] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
7] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
8] 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
9] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
10] 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)
11] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
12] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
13] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
14] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
15] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
16] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
17] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
18] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
19] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
20] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
21] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
22] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
23] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
24] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
25] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
26] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
27] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
28] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
29] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
30] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
31] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
32] 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.
33] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
34] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
35] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
36] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
37] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
38] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
39] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
40] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
41] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
42] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
43] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
44] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
45] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
46] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
47] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
48] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
49] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
50] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
51] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
52] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
53] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
54] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
55] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
56] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
57] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
58] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
59] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
60] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
61] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
62] 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
63] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
64] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
65] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
66] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
67] 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
68] 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
69] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
70] 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 .
71] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
72] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
73] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
74] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
75] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
76] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
77] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
78] 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.
79] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
80] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
81] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
82] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
83] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
84] 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
85] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
86] 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)
87] 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.
88] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
89] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
90] 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.
91] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
92] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
93] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
94] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
95] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
96] 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.
97] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
98] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
99] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
100] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
101] 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
102] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
103] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
104] 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.
105] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
106] 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
107] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
108] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
109] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
110] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
111] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
112] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
113] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
114] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
115] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
116] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
117] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
118] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
119] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
120] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
121] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
122] 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.
123] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
124] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
125] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
126] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
127] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
128] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
129] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
130] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
131] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
132] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
133] 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).
134] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
135] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
136] 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
137] 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
138] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
139] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
140] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
141] 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.
142] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
143] 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
144] 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.
145] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
146] 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)
147] 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
148] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
149] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
150] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
151] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
152] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
153] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
154] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
155] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
156] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
157] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
158] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
159] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
160] 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
161] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
162] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
163] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
164] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
165] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
166] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
167] 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]
168] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
169] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
170] 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.
171] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
172] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
173] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
174] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
175] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
176] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
177] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
178] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
179] 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)
180] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
181] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
182] 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.
183] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
184] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
185] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
186] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
187] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
188] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
189] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
190] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
191] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
192] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
193] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
194] 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.
195] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
196] 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)
197] 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.
198] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
199] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
200] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
201] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
202] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
203] 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
204] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
205] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
206] 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.
207] 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.
208] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
209] 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.
210] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
211] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
212] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
213] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
214] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
215] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
216] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
217] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
218] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
219] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
221] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
222] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
223] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
224] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
225] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
226] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
227] 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.
228] 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)
229] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
230] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
231] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
232] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
233] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
234] 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)
235] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
236] 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.
237] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
238] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
239] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
240] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
241] 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
242] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
243] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
244] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
245] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
246] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
247] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
248] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
249] 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)
250] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
251] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
252] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
253] 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.
254] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
255] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
256] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
257] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
258] 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.
259] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
260] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
261] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
262] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
263] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
264] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
265] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
266] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
267] 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.
268] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
269] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
270] 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
271] 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).
272] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
273] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
274] 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.
275] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
276] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
277] 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.
278] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
279] 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.
280] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
281] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
282] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
283] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
284] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
285] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
286] 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.
287] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
288] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
289] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
290] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
291] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
292] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
293] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
294] 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
295] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
296] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
297] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
298] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
299] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
300] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
301] 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.
302] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
303] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
304] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
305] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
306] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
307] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
308] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
309] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
310] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
311] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
312] 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.
313] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
314] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
315] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
316] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
317] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
318] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
319] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
320] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
321] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
322] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
323] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
324] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
325] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
326] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
327] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
328] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
329] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
330] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
331] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
332] 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
333] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
334] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
335] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
336] 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
337] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
338] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
339] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
340] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
341] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
342] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
343] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
344] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
345] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
346] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
347] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
348] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
349] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
350] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
351] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
352] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
353] 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)
354] 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.
355] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
356] 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.
357] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
358] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
359] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
360] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
361] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
362] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
363] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
364] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
365] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
366] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
367] 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
368] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
369] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
370] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
371] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
372] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
373] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
374] 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.
375] 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
376] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
377] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
378] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
379] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
380] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
381] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
382] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
383] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
384] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
385] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
386] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
387] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
388] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
389] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
390] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
391] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
392] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
393] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
394] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
395] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
396] 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.
397] 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.
398] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
399] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
400] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
401] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
402] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
403] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
404] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
405] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
406] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
407] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
408] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
409] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
410] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
411] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
412] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
413] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
414] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
415] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
416] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
417] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
418] 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)
419] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
420] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
421] 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.
422] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
423] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
424] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
425] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
426] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
427] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
428] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
429] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
430] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
431] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
432] 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.
433] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
434] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
435] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
436] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
437] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
438] 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
439] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
440] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
441] 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.
442] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
443] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
444] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
445] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
446] 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.
447] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
448] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
449] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
450] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
451] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
452] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
453] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
454] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
455] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
456] 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
457] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
458] 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.
459] 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.”
460] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
461] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
462] 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
463] 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
464] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
465] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
466] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
467] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
468] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
469] 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.
470] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
471] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
472] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
473] 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)
474] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
475] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
476] 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
477] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
478] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
479] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
480] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
481] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
482] 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)
483] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
484] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
485] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
486] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
487] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
488] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
489] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
490] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
491] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
492] 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.
493] 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
494] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
495] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
496] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
497] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
498] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
499] 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.
500] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
501] 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
502] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
503] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
504] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
505] 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
506] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
507] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
508] 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.
509] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
510] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
511] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
512] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
513] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
514] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
515] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
516] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
517] 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.
518] 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]
519] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
521] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
522] 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.
523] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
524] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
525] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
526] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
527] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
528] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
529] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
530] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
531] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
532] 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
533] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
534] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
535] 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
536] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
537] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
538] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
539] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
540] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
541] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
542] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
543] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
544] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
545] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
546] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
547] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
548] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
549] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
550] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
551] Commonsense is not so common.
552] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
553] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
554] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
555] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
556] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
557] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
558] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
559] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
560] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
561] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
562] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
563] 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
564] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
565] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
566] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
567] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
568] 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.
569] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
570] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
571] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
572] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
573] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
574] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
575] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
576] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
577] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
578] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
579] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
580] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
581] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
582] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
583] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
584] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
585] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
586] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
587] 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.
588] 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.
589] 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.
590] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
591] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
592] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
593] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
594] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
595] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
596] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
597] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
598] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
599] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
600] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.