Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
2] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
3] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
4] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
5] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
6] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
7] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
8] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
9] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
10] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
11] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
12] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
13] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
14] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
15] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
16] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
17] 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)
18] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
20] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
21] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
22] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
23] 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
24] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
25] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
26] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
27] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
28] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
29] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
30] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
31] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
32] 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.
33] 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)
34] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
35] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
36] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
37] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
38] 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.
39] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
40] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
41] 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)
42] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
43] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
44] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
45] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
46] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
47] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
48] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
49] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
50] 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.
51] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
52] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
53] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
54] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
55] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
56] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
57] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
58] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
59] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
60] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
61] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
62] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
63] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
64] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
65] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
66] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
67] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
68] 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
69] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
70] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
71] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
72] 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.
73] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
74] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
75] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
76] 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.
77] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
78] 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.
79] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
80] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
81] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
82] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
83] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
84] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
85] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
86] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
87] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
88] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
89] 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
90] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
91] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
92] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
93] 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
94] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
95] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
96] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
97] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
98] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
99] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
100] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
101] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
102] 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.
103] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
104] 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.
105] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
106] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
107] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
108] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
109] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
110] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
111] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
112] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
113] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
114] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
115] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
116] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
117] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
118] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
119] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
120] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
121] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
122] 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
123] 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)
124] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
125] 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
126] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
127] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
128] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
129] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
130] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
131] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
132] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
133] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
134] 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
135] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
136] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
137] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
138] 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
139] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
140] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
141] 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)
142] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
143] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
144] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
145] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
146] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
147] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
148] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
149] 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
150] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
151] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
152] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
153] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
154] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
155] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
156] 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
157] 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.
158] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
159] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
160] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
161] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
162] 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)
163] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
164] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
165] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
166] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
167] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
168] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
169] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
170] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
171] 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
172] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
173] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
174] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
175] 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.
176] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
177] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
178] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
179] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
180] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
181] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
182] 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
183] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
184] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
185] 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
186] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
187] 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)
188] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
189] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
190] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
191] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
192] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
193] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
194] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
195] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
196] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
197] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
198] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
199] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
200] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
201] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
202] 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.
203] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
204] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
205] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
206] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
207] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
208] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
209] 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
210] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
211] 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.
212] 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.
213] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
214] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
215] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
216] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
217] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
218] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
219] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
220] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
221] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
222] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
223] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
225] 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
226] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
227] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
228] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
229] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
230] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
231] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
232] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
233] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
234] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
235] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
236] 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.
237] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
238] 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.
239] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
240] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
241] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
242] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
243] 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.
244] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
245] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
246] 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
247] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
248] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
249] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
250] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
251] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
252] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
253] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
254] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
255] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
256] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
257] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
258] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
259] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
260] 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)
261] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
262] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
263] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
264] 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.
265] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
266] 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.
267] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
268] 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.
269] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
270] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
271] 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)
272] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
273] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
274] 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.
275] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
276] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
277] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
278] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
279] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
280] 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.
281] 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
282] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
283] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
284] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
285] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
286] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
287] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
288] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
289] 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
290] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
291] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
292] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
293] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
294] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
295] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
296] 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
297] 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).
298] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
299] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
300] 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
301] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
302] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
303] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
304] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
305] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
306] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
307] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
308] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
309] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
310] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
311] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
312] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
313] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
314] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
315] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
316] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
317] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
318] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
319] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
320] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
321] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
322] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
323] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
324] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
325] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
326] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
327] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
328] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
329] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
330] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
331] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
332] 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.
333] 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)
334] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
335] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
336] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
337] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
338] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
339] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
340] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
341] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
342] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
343] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
344] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
345] 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.
346] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
347] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
348] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
349] 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.
350] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
351] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
352] 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
353] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
354] 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.
355] 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.
356] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
357] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
358] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
359] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
360] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
361] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
362] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
363] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
364] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
365] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
366] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
367] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
368] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
369] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
370] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
371] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
372] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
373] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
374] 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
375] 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.
376] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
377] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
378] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
379] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
380] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
381] 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
382] 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.
383] 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.
384] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
385] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
386] 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)
387] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
388] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
389] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
390] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
391] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
392] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
393] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
394] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
395] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
396] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
397] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
398] 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)
399] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
400] 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.
401] Commonsense is not so common.
402] 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
403] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
404] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
405] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
406] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
407] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
408] 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
409] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
410] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
411] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
412] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
413] 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.
414] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
415] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
416] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
417] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
418] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
419] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
420] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
421] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
422] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
423] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
424] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
425] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
426] 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
427] 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.
428] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
429] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
430] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
431] 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)
432] 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
433] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
434] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
435] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
436] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
437] 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
438] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
439] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
440] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
441] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
442] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
443] 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.
444] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
445] 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)
446] 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
447] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
448] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
449] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
450] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
451] 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.
452] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
453] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
454] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
455] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
456] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
457] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
459] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
460] 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
461] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
462] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
463] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
464] 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
465] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
466] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
467] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
468] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
469] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
470] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
471] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
472] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
473] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
474] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
475] 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)
476] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
477] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
478] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
479] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
480] 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.
481] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
482] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
483] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
484] 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.
485] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
486] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
487] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
488] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
489] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
490] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
491] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
492] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
493] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
494] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
495] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
496] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
497] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
498] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
499] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
500] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
501] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
502] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
503] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
504] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
505] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
506] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
507] 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.
508] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
509] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
510] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
511] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
512] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
513] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
514] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
515] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
516] 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
517] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
518] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
519] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
520] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
521] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
522] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
523] 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.
524] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
525] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
526] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
527] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
528] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
529] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
530] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
531] 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
532] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
533] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
534] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
535] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
536] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
537] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
538] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
539] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
540] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
541] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
542] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
543] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
544] 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
545] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
546] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
547] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
548] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
549] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
550] 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
551] 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.
552] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
553] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
554] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
555] 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
556] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
557] 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)
558] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
559] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
560] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
561] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
562] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
563] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
564] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
565] 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.”
566] 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)
567] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
568] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
569] 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)
570] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
571] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
572] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
573] 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).
574] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
575] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
576] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
577] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
578] 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
579] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
580] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
581] 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
582] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
583] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
584] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
585] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
586] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
587] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
588] 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.
589] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
590] 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.
591] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
592] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
593] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
594] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
595] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
596] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
597] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
598] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
599] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
600] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.