Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
2] 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
3] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
4] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
5] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6] 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)
7] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
8] 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.
9] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
10] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
11] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
12] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
13] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
14] 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.
15] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
16] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
17] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
18] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
19] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
20] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
21] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
22] 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
23] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
24] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
25] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
26] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
27] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
28] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
29] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
30] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
31] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
32] 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.
33] 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.
34] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
35] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
36] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
37] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
38] 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.
39] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
40] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
41] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
42] 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
43] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
44] 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
45] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
46] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
47] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
48] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
49] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
50] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
51] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
52] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
53] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
54] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
55] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
56] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
57] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
58] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
59] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
60] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
61] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
62] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
63] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
64] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
65] 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.
66] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
67] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
68] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
69] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
70] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
71] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
72] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
73] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
74] 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)
75] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
76] 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
77] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
78] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
79] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
80] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
81] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
82] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
83] 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)
84] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
85] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
86] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
87] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
88] 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
89] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
90] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
91] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
92] 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
93] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
94] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
95] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
96] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
97] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
98] 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.
99] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
100] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
101] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
102] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
103] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
104] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
105] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
106] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
107] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
108] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
109] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
111] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
112] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
113] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
114] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
115] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
116] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
117] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
118] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
119] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
120] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
121] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
122] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
123] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
124] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
125] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
126] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
127] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
128] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
129] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
130] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
131] 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)
132] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
133] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
134] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
135] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
136] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
137] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
138] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
139] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
140] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
141] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
142] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
143] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
144] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
145] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
146] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
147] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
148] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
149] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
150] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
151] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
152] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
153] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
154] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
155] 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
156] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
157] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
158] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
159] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
160] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
161] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
162] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
163] 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)
164] 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.
165] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
166] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
167] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
168] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
169] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
170] 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
171] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
172] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
173] 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)
174] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
175] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
176] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
177] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
178] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
179] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
180] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
181] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
182] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
183] 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.
184] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
185] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
186] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
187] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
188] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
189] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
190] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
191] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
192] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
193] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
194] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
195] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
196] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
197] 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
198] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
199] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
200] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
201] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
202] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
203] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
204] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
205] 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.
206] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
207] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
208] 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)
209] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
210] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
211] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
212] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
213] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
214] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
215] 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)
216] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
217] 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.
218] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
219] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
220] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
221] 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
222] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
223] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
224] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
225] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
226] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
227] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
228] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
229] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
230] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
231] 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
232] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
233] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
234] 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
235] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
236] 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.
237] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
238] 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.
239] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
240] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
242] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
243] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
244] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
245] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
246] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
247] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
248] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
249] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
250] 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.
251] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
252] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
253] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
254] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
255] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
256] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
257] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
258] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
259] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
260] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
261] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
262] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
263] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
264] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
265] 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)
266] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
267] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
268] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
269] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
270] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
271] 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
272] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
273] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
274] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
275] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
276] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
277] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
278] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
279] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
280] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
281] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
282] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
283] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
284] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
285] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
286] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
287] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
288] Commonsense is not so common.
289] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
290] 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
291] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
292] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
293] 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
294] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
295] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
296] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
297] 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.
298] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
299] 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.
300] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
301] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
302] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
303] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
304] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
305] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
306] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
307] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
308] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
309] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
310] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
311] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
312] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
313] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
314] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
315] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
316] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
317] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
318] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
319] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
320] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
321] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
322] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
323] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
324] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
325] 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
326] 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
327] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
328] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
329] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
330] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
331] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
332] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
333] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
334] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
335] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
336] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
337] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
338] 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
339] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
340] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
341] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
342] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
343] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
344] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
345] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
346] 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).
347] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
348] 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.
349] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
350] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
351] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
352] 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
353] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
354] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
355] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
356] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
357] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
358] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
359] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
360] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
361] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
362] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
363] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
364] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
365] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
366] 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
367] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
368] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
369] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
370] 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.
371] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
372] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
373] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
374] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
375] 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)
376] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
377] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
378] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
379] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
380] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
381] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
382] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
383] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
384] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
385] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
386] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
387] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
388] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
389] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
390] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
391] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
392] 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.
393] 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)
394] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
395] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
396] 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).
397] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
398] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
399] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
400] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
401] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
402] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
403] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
404] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
405] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
406] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
407] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
408] 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).
409] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
410] 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
411] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
412] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
413] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
414] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
415] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
416] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
417] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
418] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
419] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
420] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
421] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
422] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
423] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
424] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
425] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
426] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
427] 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)
428] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
429] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
430] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
431] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
432] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
433] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
434] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
436] 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.
437] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
438] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
439] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
440] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
441] 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)
442] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
443] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
444] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
445] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
446] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
447] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
448] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
449] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
450] 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)
451] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
452] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
453] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
454] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
455] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
456] 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
457] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
458] 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
459] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
460] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
461] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
462] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
463] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
464] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
465] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
466] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
467] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
468] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
469] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
470] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
471] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
472] 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)
473] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
474] 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.
475] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
476] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
477] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
478] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
479] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
480] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
481] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
482] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
483] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
484] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
485] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
486] 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
487] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
488] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
489] 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)
490] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
491] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
492] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
493] 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.
494] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
495] 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.
496] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
497] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
498] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
499] 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
500] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
501] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
502] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
503] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
504] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
505] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
506] 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
507] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
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] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
510] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
511] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
512] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
513] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
514] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
515] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
516] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
517] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
518] 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)
519] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
520] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
521] 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
522] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
523] 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
524] 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
525] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
526] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
527] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
528] 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.
529] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
530] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
531] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
532] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
533] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
534] 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
535] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
536] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
537] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
538] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
539] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
540] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
541] 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.
542] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
543] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
544] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
545] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
546] 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.
547] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
548] 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
549] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
550] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
551] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
552] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
553] 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)
554] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
555] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
556] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
557] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
558] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
559] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
560] 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)
561] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
562] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
563] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
564] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
565] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
566] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
567] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
568] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
569] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
570] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
571] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
572] 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.
573] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
574] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
575] 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.
576] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
577] 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
578] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
579] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
580] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
581] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
582] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
583] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
584] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
585] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
586] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
587] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
588] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
589] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
590] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
591] 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.
592] 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.
593] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
594] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
595] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
596] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
597] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
598] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
599] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
600] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus