Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
2] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
3] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
4] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
5] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
6] 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
7] 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
8] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
9] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
10] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
11] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
12] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
13] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
14] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
15] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
16] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
17] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
18] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
19] 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.
20] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
21] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
22] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
23] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
24] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
25] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
26] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
27] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
28] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
29] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
30] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
31] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
32] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
33] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
34] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
35] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
36] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
37] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
38] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
39] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
40] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
41] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
42] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
43] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
44] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
45] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] 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.
47] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
48] 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
49] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
50] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
51] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
52] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
53] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
54] 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.
55] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
56] 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
57] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
58] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
59] 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
60] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
61] 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.
62] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
63] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
64] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
65] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
66] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
67] 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
68] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
69] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
70] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
71] 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.
72] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
73] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
74] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
75] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
76] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
77] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
78] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
79] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
80] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
81] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
82] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
83] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
84] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
85] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
86] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
87] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
88] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
89] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
90] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
91] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
92] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
93] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
94] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
95] 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
96] 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
97] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
98] 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.
99] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
100] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
101] 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.
102] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
103] 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.
104] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
105] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
106] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
107] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
108] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
109] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
110] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
111] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
112] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
113] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
114] 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.
115] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
116] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
117] 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.
118] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
119] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
120] 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
121] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
122] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
123] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
124] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
125] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
126] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
127] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
128] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
129] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
130] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
131] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
132] 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
133] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
134] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
135] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
136] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
137] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
138] 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.
139] 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.
140] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
141] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
142] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
143] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
144] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
145] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
146] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
147] 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.
148] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
149] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
150] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
151] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
152] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
153] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
154] 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.
155] 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)
156] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
157] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
158] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
159] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
160] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
161] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
162] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
163] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
164] 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).
165] 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)
166] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
167] 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
168] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
169] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
170] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
171] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
172] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
173] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
174] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
175] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
176] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
177] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
178] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
179] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
180] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
181] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
182] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
183] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
184] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
185] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
186] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
187] 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.
188] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
189] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
190] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
191] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
192] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
193] 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.
194] 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
195] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
196] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
197] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
198] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
199] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
200] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
201] 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
202] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
203] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
204] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
205] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
206] 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)
207] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
209] 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.
210] 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.
211] 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.
212] 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
213] 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
214] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
215] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
216] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
217] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
218] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
219] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
220] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
221] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
222] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
223] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
224] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
225] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
226] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
227] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
228] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
229] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
230] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
231] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
232] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
233] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
234] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
235] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
236] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
237] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
238] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
239] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
240] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
241] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
242] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
243] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
244] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
245] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
246] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
247] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
248] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
249] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
250] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
251] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
252] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
253] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
254] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
255] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
256] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
257] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
258] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
259] 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.
260] 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.
261] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
262] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
263] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
264] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
265] 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.
266] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
267] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
268] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
269] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
270] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
271] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
272] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
273] 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
274] 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
275] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
276] 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)
277] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
278] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
279] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
280] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
281] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
282] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
283] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
284] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
285] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
286] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
287] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
288] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
289] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
290] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
291] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
292] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
293] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
294] 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
295] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
296] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
297] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
298] 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.
299] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
300] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
301] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
302] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
303] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
304] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
305] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
306] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
307] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
308] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
309] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
310] 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)
311] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
312] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
313] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
314] 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)
315] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
316] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
317] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
318] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
319] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
320] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
321] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
322] 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
323] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
324] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
325] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
326] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
327] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
328] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
329] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
330] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
331] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
332] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
333] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
334] 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.
335] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
336] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
337] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
338] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
339] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
340] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
341] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
342] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
343] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
344] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
345] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
346] 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.
347] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
348] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
349] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
350] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
351] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
352] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
353] 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.
354] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
355] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
356] 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
357] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
358] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
359] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
360] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
361] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
362] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
363] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
364] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
365] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
366] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
367] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
368] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
369] 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)
370] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
371] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
372] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
373] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
374] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
375] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
376] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
377] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
378] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
379] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
380] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
381] 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
382] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
383] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
384] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
385] 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.
386] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
387] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
388] 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)
389] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
390] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
391] 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.
392] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
393] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
394] 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
395] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
396] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
397] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
398] 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
399] 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)
400] 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)
401] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
402] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
403] 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
404] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
405] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
406] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
407] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
408] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
409] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
410] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
411] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
412] 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
413] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
414] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
415] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
416] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
417] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
418] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
419] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
420] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
421] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
422] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
423] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
424] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
425] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
426] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
427] 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.
428] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
429] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
430] 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
431] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
432] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
433] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
434] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
435] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
436] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
437] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
438] 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)
439] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
440] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
441] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
442] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
443] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
444] 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)
445] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
446] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
447] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
448] 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.
449] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
450] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
451] 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
452] 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.
453] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
454] 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
455] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
456] 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
457] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
458] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
459] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
460] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
461] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
462] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
463] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
464] 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.
465] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
466] 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.
467] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
468] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
469] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
470] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
471] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
472] 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.
473] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
474] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
475] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
476] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
477] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
478] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
479] 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.
480] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
481] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
482] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
483] 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
484] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
485] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
486] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
487] 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.
488] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
490] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
491] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
492] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
493] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
494] 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.
495] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
496] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
497] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
498] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
499] 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
500] 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.
501] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
502] 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)
503] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
504] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
505] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
506] 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)
507] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
508] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
509] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
510] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
511] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
512] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
513] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
514] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
515] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
516] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
517] 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
518] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
519] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
520] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
521] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
522] 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
523] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
524] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
525] 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
526] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
527] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
528] 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
529] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
530] 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.
531] 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
532] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
533] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
534] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
535] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
536] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
537] 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
538] 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.
539] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
540] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
541] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
542] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
543] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
544] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
545] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
546] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
547] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
548] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
549] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
550] 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).
551] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
552] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
553] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
554] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
555] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
556] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
557] 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.
558] 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
559] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
560] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
561] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
562] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
563] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
564] 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.
565] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
566] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
567] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
568] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
569] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
570] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
571] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
572] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
573] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
574] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
575] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
576] 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
577] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
578] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
579] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
580] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
581] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
582] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
583] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
584] 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.
585] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
586] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
587] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
588] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
589] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
590] 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.
591] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
592] 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)
593] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
594] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
595] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
597] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
598] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
599] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
600] 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.