Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
3] 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
4] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
5] 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).
6] 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
7] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
8] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
9] 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
10] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
11] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
12] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
13] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
14] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
15] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
16] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
17] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
18] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
19] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
20] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
21] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
22] 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.
23] 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.
24] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
25] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
26] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
27] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
28] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
29] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
30] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
31] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
32] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
33] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
34] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
35] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
36] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
37] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
38] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
39] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
40] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
41] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
42] 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
43] 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
44] 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
45] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
46] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
47] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
48] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
49] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
50] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
51] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
52] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
53] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
54] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
55] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
56] 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
57] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
58] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
59] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
60] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
61] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
62] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
63] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
64] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
65] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
66] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
67] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
68] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
69] 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)
70] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
71] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
72] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
73] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
74] 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
75] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
76] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
77] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
78] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
79] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
80] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
81] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
82] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
83] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
84] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
85] 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.
86] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
87] 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)
88] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
89] 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
90] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
91] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
92] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
93] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
94] 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
95] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
96] 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
97] 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
98] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
99] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
100] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
101] 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.
102] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
103] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
104] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
105] 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
106] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
107] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
108] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
109] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
110] 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)
111] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
112] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
113] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
114] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
115] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
116] 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
117] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
118] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
119] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
120] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
121] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
122] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
123] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
124] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
125] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
126] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
127] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
128] 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.
129] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
130] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
131] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
132] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
133] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
134] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
135] 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
136] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
137] 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)
138] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
139] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
140] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
141] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
142] 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).
143] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
144] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
145] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
146] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
147] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
148] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
149] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
150] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
151] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
153] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
154] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
155] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
156] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
157] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
158] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
159] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
160] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
161] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
162] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
163] 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.
164] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
165] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
166] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
167] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
168] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
169] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
170] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
171] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
172] 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.
173] 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.
174] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
175] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
176] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
177] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
178] 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
179] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
180] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
181] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
182] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
183] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
184] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
185] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
186] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
187] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
188] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
189] 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)
190] 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)
191] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
192] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
193] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
194] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
195] 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.
196] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
197] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
198] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
199] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
200] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
201] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
202] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
203] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
204] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
205] 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.
206] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
207] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
208] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
209] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
210] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
211] 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
212] 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
213] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
214] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
215] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
216] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
217] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
218] 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.
219] 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
220] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
221] 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.
222] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
223] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
224] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
225] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
226] 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)
227] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
228] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
229] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
230] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
231] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
232] 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.
233] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
234] 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
235] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
236] 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.
237] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
238] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
239] 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)
240] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
241] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
242] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
243] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
244] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
245] 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.
246] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
247] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
248] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
249] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
250] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
251] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
252] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
253] 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)
254] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
255] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
256] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
257] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
258] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
259] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
260] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
261] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
262] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
263] 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)
264] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
265] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
266] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
267] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
268] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
269] 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.
270] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
271] 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
272] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
273] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
274] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
275] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
276] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
277] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
278] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
279] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
280] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
281] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
282] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
283] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
284] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
285] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
286] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
287] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
288] 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.
289] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
290] 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.
291] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
292] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
293] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
294] 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)
295] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
296] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
297] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
298] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
299] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
300] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
301] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
302] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
303] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
304] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
305] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
306] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
307] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
308] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
309] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
310] 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.
311] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
312] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
313] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
314] 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.
315] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
316] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
317] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
318] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
319] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
320] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
321] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
322] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
323] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
324] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
325] 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
326] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
327] 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.
328] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
329] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
330] 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)
331] 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.
332] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
333] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
334] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
335] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
336] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
337] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
338] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
339] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
340] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
341] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
342] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
343] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
344] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
345] 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.
346] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
347] 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.
348] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
349] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
350] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
351] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
352] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
353] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
354] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
355] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
356] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
357] 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
358] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
359] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
360] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
361] 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
362] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
363] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
364] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
365] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
366] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
367] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
368] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
369] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
370] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
371] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
372] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
373] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
374] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
375] 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
376] 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
377] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
378] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
379] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
380] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
381] 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.
382] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
383] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
384] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
385] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
386] 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.
387] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
388] 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.
389] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
390] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
391] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
392] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
393] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
394] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
395] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
396] 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.
397] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
398] 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
399] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
400] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
401] 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]
402] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
403] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
404] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
405] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
406] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
407] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
408] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
409] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
410] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
411] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
412] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
413] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
414] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
415] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
416] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
417] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
418] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
419] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
420] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
421] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
422] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
423] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
424] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
425] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
426] 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.
427] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
428] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
429] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
430] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
431] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
432] 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)
433] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
434] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
435] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
436] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
437] 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
438] 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.
439] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
440] 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.
441] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
442] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
443] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
444] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
445] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
446] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
447] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
448] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
449] 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.
450] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
451] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
452] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
453] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
454] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
455] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
456] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
457] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
458] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
459] 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
460] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
461] 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
462] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
463] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
464] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
465] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
466] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
467] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
468] 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)
469] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
470] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
471] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
472] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
473] 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)
474] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
475] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
476] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
477] 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
478] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
479] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
480] 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.
481] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
482] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
483] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
484] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
485] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
486] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
487] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
488] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
489] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
490] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
491] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
492] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
493] 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.
494] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
495] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
496] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
497] 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.
498] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
499] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
500] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
501] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
502] 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.
503] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
504] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
505] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
506] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
507] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
508] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
509] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
510] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
511] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
512] 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.
513] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
514] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
515] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
516] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
517] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
518] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
519] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
520] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
521] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
522] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
523] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
524] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
525] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
526] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
527] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
528] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
529] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
530] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
531] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
532] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
533] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
534] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
535] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
536] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
537] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
538] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
539] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
540] 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)
541] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
542] 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)
543] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
544] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
545] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
546] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
547] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
548] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
549] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
550] 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.
551] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
552] 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.
553] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
554] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
555] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
556] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
557] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
558] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
559] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
560] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
561] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
562] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
563] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
564] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
565] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
566] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
567] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
568] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
569] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
570] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
571] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
572] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
573] 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.
574] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
575] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
576] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
577] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
578] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
579] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
580] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
581] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
582] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
583] 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.
584] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
585] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
586] 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.
587] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
588] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
589] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
590] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
591] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
592] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
593] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
594] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
595] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
596] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
597] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
598] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
599] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
600] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]