Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
2] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
3] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
4] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
5] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
6] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
7] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
8] 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
9] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
10] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
11] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
12] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
13] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
14] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
15] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
16] 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.
17] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
18] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
19] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
20] 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.
21] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
22] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
23] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
24] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
25] 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)
26] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
27] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
28] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
29] 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.
30] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
31] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
32] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
33] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
34] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
35] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
36] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
37] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
38] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
39] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
40] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
41] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
42] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
43] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
44] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
45] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
46] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
47] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
48] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
49] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
50] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
51] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
52] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
53] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
54] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
55] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
56] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
57] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
58] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
59] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
60] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
61] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
62] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
63] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
64] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
65] 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.
66] 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
67] 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)
68] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
69] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
70] 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
71] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
72] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
73] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
74] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
75] 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.
76] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
77] 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.
78] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
79] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
80] 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.
81] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
82] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
83] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
84] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
85] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
86] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
87] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
88] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
89] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
90] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
91] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
92] 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
93] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
94] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
95] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
96] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
97] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
99] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
100] 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)
101] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
102] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
103] 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.
104] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
105] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
106] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
107] 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.
108] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
109] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
110] 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.
111] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
112] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
113] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
114] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
115] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
116] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
117] 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
118] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
119] 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
120] 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.
121] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
122] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
123] 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
124] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
125] 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.
126] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
127] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
128] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
129] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
130] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
131] 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
132] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
133] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
134] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
135] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
136] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
137] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
138] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
139] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
140] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
141] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
142] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
143] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
144] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
145] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
146] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
147] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
148] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
149] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
150] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
151] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
152] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
153] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
154] 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.
155] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
156] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
157] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
158] 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
159] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
160] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
161] 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.
162] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
163] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
164] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
165] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
166] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
167] 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.
168] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
169] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
170] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
171] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
172] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
173] 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.
174] 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
175] 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.
176] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
177] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
178] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
179] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
180] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
181] 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
182] 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.
183] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
184] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
185] 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.
186] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
187] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
188] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
189] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
190] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
191] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
192] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
193] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
194] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
195] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
196] 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.
197] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
198] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
199] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
200] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
201] 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 .
202] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
203] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
205] 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
206] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
207] 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)
208] Commonsense is not so common.
209] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
210] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
211] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
212] 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.
213] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
214] 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.
215] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
216] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
217] 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
218] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
219] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
220] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
221] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
222] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
223] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
224] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
225] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
227] 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
228] 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
229] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
230] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
231] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
232] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
233] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
234] 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
235] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
236] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
237] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
238] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
239] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
240] 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)
241] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
242] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
243] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
244] 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.
245] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
246] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
247] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
248] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
249] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
250] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
251] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
252] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
253] 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.
254] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
255] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
256] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
257] 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)
258] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
259] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
260] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
261] 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)
262] 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.”
263] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
264] 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.
265] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
266] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
267] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
268] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
269] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
270] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
271] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
272] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
273] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
274] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
275] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
276] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
277] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
278] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
279] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
280] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
281] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
282] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
283] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
284] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
285] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
286] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
287] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
288] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
289] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
290] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
291] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
292] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
293] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
294] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
295] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
296] 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
297] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
298] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
299] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
300] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
301] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
302] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
303] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
304] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
305] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
306] 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.
307] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
308] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
309] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
311] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
312] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
313] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
314] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
315] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
316] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
317] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
318] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
319] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
320] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
321] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
322] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
323] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
324] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
325] 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
326] 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
327] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
328] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
329] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
330] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
331] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
332] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
333] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
334] 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.
335] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
336] 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.
337] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
338] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
339] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
340] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
341] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
342] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
343] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
344] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
345] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
346] 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.
347] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
348] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
349] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
350] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
351] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
352] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
353] 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.
354] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
355] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
356] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
357] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
358] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
359] 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
360] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
361] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
362] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
363] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
364] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
365] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
366] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
367] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
368] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
369] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
370] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
371] 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
372] 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
373] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
374] 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.
375] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
376] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
377] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
378] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
379] 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.
380] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
381] 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.
382] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
383] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
384] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
385] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
386] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
387] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
388] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
389] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
390] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
391] 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
392] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
393] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
394] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
395] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
396] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
397] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
398] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
399] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
400] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
401] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
402] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
403] 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
404] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
405] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
406] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
407] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
408] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
409] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
410] 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
411] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
412] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
413] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
414] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
415] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
416] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
417] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
418] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
419] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
420] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
421] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
422] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
423] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
424] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
425] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
426] 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)
427] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
428] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
429] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
430] 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.
431] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
432] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
433] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
434] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
435] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
436] 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
437] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
438] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
439] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
440] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
441] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
442] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
443] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
444] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
445] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
446] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
447] 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.
448] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
449] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
450] 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)
451] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
452] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
453] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
454] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
455] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
456] 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
457] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
458] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
459] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
460] 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.
461] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
462] 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
463] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
464] 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.
465] 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
466] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
467] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
468] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
469] 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.”
470] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
471] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
472] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
473] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
474] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
475] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
476] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
477] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
478] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
479] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
480] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
481] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
482] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
483] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
484] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
485] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
486] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
487] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
488] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
489] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
490] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
491] 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
492] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
493] 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.
494] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
495] 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.
496] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
497] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
498] 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.
499] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
500] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
501] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
502] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
503] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
504] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
505] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
506] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
507] 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.
508] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
509] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
510] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
511] 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.
512] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
513] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
514] 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.
515] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
516] 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)
517] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
518] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
519] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
520] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
521] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
522] 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.
523] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
524] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
525] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
526] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
527] 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
528] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
529] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
530] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
531] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
532] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
533] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
534] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
535] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
536] 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.
537] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
538] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
539] 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
540] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
541] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
542] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
543] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
544] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
545] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
546] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
547] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
548] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
549] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
550] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
551] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
552] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
553] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
554] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
555] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
556] 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)
557] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
558] 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
559] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
560] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
561] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
562] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
563] 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.
564] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
565] 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.
566] 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.
567] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
568] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
569] 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.
570] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
571] 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
572] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
573] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
574] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
575] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
576] 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
577] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
578] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
579] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
580] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
581] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
582] 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.
583] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
584] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
585] 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.
586] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
587] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
588] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
589] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
590] 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)
591] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
592] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
593] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
594] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
595] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
596] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
597] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
598] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
599] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
600] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.