Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
2] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
3] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
4] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
5] 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)
6] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
7] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
8] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
9] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
10] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
11] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
12] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
13] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
14] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
15] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
17] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
18] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
19] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
20] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
21] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
22] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
23] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
24] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
25] 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.
26] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
27] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
28] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
29] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
30] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
31] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
32] 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
33] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
34] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
35] 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.
36] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
37] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
38] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
39] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
40] 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.
41] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
42] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
43] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
44] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
45] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
46] 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.
47] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
48] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
49] 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)
50] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
51] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
52] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
53] 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
54] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
55] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
56] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
57] 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.
58] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
59] 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)
60] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
61] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
62] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
63] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
64] 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.
65] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
66] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
67] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
68] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
69] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
70] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
71] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
72] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
73] 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
74] 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.
75] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
76] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
77] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
78] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
79] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
80] 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.
81] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
82] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
83] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
84] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
85] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
86] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
87] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
88] 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.
89] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
90] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
91] 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.
92] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
93] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
94] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
95] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
96] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
97] 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.
98] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
99] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
100] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
101] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
102] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
103] 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
104] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
105] 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.
106] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
107] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
108] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
109] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
110] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
111] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
112] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
113] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
114] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
115] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
116] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
117] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
118] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
119] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
120] 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
121] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
122] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
123] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
124] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
125] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
126] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
127] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
128] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
129] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
130] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
131] 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.
132] 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.
133] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
134] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
135] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
136] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
137] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
138] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
139] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
140] 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)
141] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
142] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
143] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
144] 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
145] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
146] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
147] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
148] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
149] 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
150] 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.
151] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
152] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
153] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
154] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
155] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
156] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
157] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
158] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
159] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
160] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
161] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
162] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
163] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
164] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
165] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
166] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
167] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
168] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
169] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
170] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
171] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
172] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
173] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
174] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
175] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
176] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
177] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
178] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
179] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
180] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
181] 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.
182] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
183] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
184] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
185] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
186] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
187] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
188] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
189] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
190] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
191] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
192] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
193] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
194] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
195] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
196] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
197] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
198] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
199] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
200] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
201] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
202] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
203] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
204] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
205] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
206] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
207] 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
208] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
209] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
210] 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
211] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
212] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
213] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
214] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
215] 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.”
216] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
217] 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.
218] 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
219] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
220] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
221] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
222] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
223] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
224] 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
225] 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.
226] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
227] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
228] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
229] 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
230] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
231] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
232] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
233] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
234] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
235] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
236] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
237] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
238] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
239] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
240] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
241] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
242] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
243] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
244] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
245] 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
246] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
247] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
248] 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.
249] 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
250] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
251] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
252] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
253] 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.
254] 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
255] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
256] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
257] 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.”
258] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
259] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
260] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
261] 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.
262] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
263] 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.
264] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
265] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
266] 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.
267] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
268] 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.
269] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
270] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
271] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
272] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
273] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
274] 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
275] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
276] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
277] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
278] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
279] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
280] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
281] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
282] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
283] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
284] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
285] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
286] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
287] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
288] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
289] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
290] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
291] 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.
292] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
293] 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.
294] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
295] 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.
296] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
297] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
298] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
299] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
300] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
301] 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.
302] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
303] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
304] 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.
305] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
306] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
307] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
308] 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
309] 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.
310] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
311] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
312] 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
313] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
314] 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.
315] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
316] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
317] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
318] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
319] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
320] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
322] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
323] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
324] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
325] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
326] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
327] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
328] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
329] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
330] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
331] 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
332] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
333] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
334] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
335] 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
336] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
337] 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
338] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
339] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
340] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
341] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
342] 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
343] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
344] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
345] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
346] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
347] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
348] 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]
349] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
350] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
351] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
352] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
353] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
354] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
355] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
356] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
357] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
358] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
359] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
360] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
361] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
362] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
363] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
364] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
365] 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.
366] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
367] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
368] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
369] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
370] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
371] 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)
372] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
373] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
374] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
375] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
376] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
377] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
378] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
379] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
380] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
381] 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.
382] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
383] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
384] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
385] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
386] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
387] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
388] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
389] 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.
390] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
391] 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)
392] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
393] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
394] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
395] 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.
396] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
397] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
398] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
399] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
400] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
401] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
402] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
403] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
404] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
405] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
406] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
407] 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
408] 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
409] 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)
410] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
411] 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.
412] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
413] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
414] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
415] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
416] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
417] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
418] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
419] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
420] 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
421] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
422] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
423] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
424] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
425] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
426] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
427] 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).
428] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
429] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
430] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
431] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
432] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
433] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
434] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
435] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
436] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
437] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
438] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
439] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
440] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
441] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
442] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
443] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
444] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
445] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
446] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
447] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
448] 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)
449] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
450] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
451] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
452] 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)
453] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
454] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
455] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
456] 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.
457] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
458] 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
459] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
460] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
461] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
462] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
463] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
464] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
465] 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.
466] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
467] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
468] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
469] 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
470] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
471] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
472] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
473] 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.
474] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
475] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
476] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
477] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
478] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
479] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
480] 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
481] 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.
482] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
483] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
484] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
485] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
486] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
487] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
488] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
489] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
490] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
491] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
492] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
493] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
494] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
495] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
496] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
497] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
498] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
499] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
500] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
501] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
502] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
503] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
504] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
505] 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.
506] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
507] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
508] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
509] 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.
510] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
511] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
512] 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
513] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
514] 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.
515] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
516] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
517] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
518] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
519] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
520] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
521] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
522] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
523] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
524] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
525] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
526] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
527] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
528] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
529] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
530] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
531] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
532] 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
533] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
534] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
535] 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.
536] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
537] 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.
538] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
539] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
540] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
541] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
542] 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
543] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
544] 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)
545] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
546] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
547] 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
548] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
549] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
550] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
551] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
552] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
553] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
554] 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.
555] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
556] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
557] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
558] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
559] 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 .
560] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
562] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
563] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
564] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
565] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
566] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
567] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
568] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
569] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
570] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
571] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
572] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
573] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
574] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
575] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
576] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
577] 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.
578] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
579] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
580] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
581] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
582] 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.
583] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
584] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
585] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
586] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
587] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
588] 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
589] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
590] 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 .
591] 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
592] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
593] 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)
594] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
595] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
596] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
597] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
598] 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)
599] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
600] 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.