Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
2] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
3] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
4] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
5] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
6] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
7] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
8] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
9] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
10] 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.
11] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
12] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
13] 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
14] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
15] 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)
16] 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 .
17] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
18] 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.
19] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
20] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
21] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
22] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
23] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
24] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
25] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
26] 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.
27] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
28] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
29] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
30] 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.
31] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
32] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
33] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
34] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
35] 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
36] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
37] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
38] 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
39] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
40] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
41] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
42] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
43] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
44] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
45] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
46] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
47] 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
48] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
49] 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
50] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
51] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
52] 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.
53] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
54] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
55] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
56] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
57] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
58] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
59] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
60] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
61] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
62] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
63] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
64] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
65] 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
66] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
67] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
68] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
69] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
70] 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
71] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
72] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
73] 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.
74] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
75] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
76] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
77] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
78] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
79] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
80] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
81] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
82] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
83] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
84] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
85] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
86] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
87] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
88] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
89] 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
90] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
91] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
92] 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.
93] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
94] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
95] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
96] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
97] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
98] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
99] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
100] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
101] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
102] 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.
103] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
104] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
105] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
106] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
107] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
108] 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)
109] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
110] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
111] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
112] 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
113] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
114] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
115] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
116] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
117] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
118] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
119] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
120] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
121] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
122] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
123] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
124] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
125] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
126] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
127] 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
128] 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
129] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
130] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
131] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
132] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
134] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
135] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
136] 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
137] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
138] 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.
139] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
140] 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)
141] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
142] 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
143] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
144] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
145] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
146] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
147] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
148] 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
149] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
150] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
151] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
152] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
153] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
154] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
155] 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.
156] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
157] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
158] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
159] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
160] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
161] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
162] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
163] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
164] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
165] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
166] 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
167] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
168] 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
169] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
170] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
171] 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.”
172] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
173] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
174] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
175] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
176] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
177] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
178] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
179] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
180] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
181] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
182] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
183] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
184] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
185] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
186] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
187] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
188] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
189] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
190] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
191] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
192] 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
193] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
194] 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
195] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
196] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
197] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
198] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
199] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
200] 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
201] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
202] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
203] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
204] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
205] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
206] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
207] 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
208] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
209] 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
210] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
211] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
212] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
213] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
214] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
215] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
216] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
217] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
218] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
219] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
220] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
221] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
222] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
223] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
224] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
225] Commonsense is not so common.
226] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
227] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
228] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
229] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
230] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
231] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
232] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
233] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
234] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
235] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
236] 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.
237] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
238] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
239] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
240] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
241] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
242] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
243] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
244] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
245] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
246] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
247] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
248] 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.
249] 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.
250] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
251] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
252] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
253] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
254] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
255] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
256] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
257] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
258] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
259] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
260] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
261] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
262] 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.
263] 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).
264] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
265] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
266] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
267] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
268] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
269] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
270] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
271] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
272] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
273] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
274] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
275] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
276] 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.
277] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
278] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
279] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
280] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
281] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
282] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
283] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
284] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
285] 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)
286] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
287] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
288] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
289] 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.
290] 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.
291] 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
292] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
293] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
294] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
295] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
296] 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
297] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
298] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
299] 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
300] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
301] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
302] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
303] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
304] 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.
305] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
306] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
307] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
308] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
309] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
310] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
311] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
312] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
313] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
314] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
315] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
316] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
317] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
318] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
319] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
320] 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)
321] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
322] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
323] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
324] 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
325] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
326] 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.
327] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
328] 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)
329] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
330] 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
331] 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.
332] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
333] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
334] 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)
335] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
336] 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.
337] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
338] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
339] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
340] 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.
341] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
342] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
343] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
344] 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.
345] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
346] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
347] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
348] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
349] 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.
350] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
351] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
352] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
353] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
354] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
355] 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.
356] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
357] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
358] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
359] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
360] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
361] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
362] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
363] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
364] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
365] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
366] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
367] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
368] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
369] 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.
370] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
371] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
372] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
373] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
374] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
375] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
376] 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
377] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
378] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
379] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
380] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
381] 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)
382] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
383] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
384] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
385] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
386] 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.
387] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
388] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
389] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
390] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
391] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
392] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
393] 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.
394] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
395] 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.
396] 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.
397] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
398] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
399] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
400] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
401] 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)
402] 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
403] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
404] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
405] 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
406] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
407] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
408] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
409] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
410] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
411] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
412] 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
413] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
414] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
415] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
416] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
417] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
418] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
419] 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
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] 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)
422] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
423] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
424] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
425] 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.
426] 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.
427] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
428] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
429] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
430] 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.
431] 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
432] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
433] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
434] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
435] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
436] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
437] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
438] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
439] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
440] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
441] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
442] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
443] 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.
444] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
445] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
446] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
447] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
448] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
449] 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)
450] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
451] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
452] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
453] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
454] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
455] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
456] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
457] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
458] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
459] 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.
460] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
461] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
462] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
463] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] 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
465] 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.
466] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
467] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
468] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
469] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
470] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
471] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
472] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
473] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
474] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
475] 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
476] 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)
477] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
478] 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.
479] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
480] 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
481] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
482] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
483] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
484] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
485] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
486] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
487] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
488] 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
489] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
490] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
491] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
492] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
493] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
494] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
495] 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)
496] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
497] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
498] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
499] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
500] 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.
501] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
502] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
503] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
504] 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
505] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
506] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
507] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
508] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
509] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
510] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
511] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
512] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
513] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
514] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
515] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
516] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
517] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
518] 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)
519] 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)
520] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
521] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
522] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
523] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
524] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
525] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
526] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
527] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
528] 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.
529] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
530] 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.
531] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
532] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
533] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
534] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
535] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
536] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
537] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
538] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
539] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
540] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
541] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
542] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
543] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
544] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
545] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
546] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
547] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
548] 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.
549] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
550] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
551] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
552] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
553] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
554] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
555] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
556] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
557] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
558] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
559] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
560] 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.
561] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
562] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
563] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
564] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
565] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
566] 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).
567] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
568] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
569] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
570] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
571] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
572] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
573] 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.
574] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
575] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
576] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
577] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
578] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
579] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
580] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
581] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
582] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
583] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
584] 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.
585] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
586] 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.
587] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
588] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
589] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
590] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
591] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
592] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
593] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
594] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
595] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
596] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
597] 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.
598] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
599] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
600] 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.