Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
2] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
3] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
4] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
5] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
6] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
7] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
8] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
9] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
10] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
11] 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)
12] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
13] 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.
14] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
15] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
16] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
17] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
18] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
19] 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.
20] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
21] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
22] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
23] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
24] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
25] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
26] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
27] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
28] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
29] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
30] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
31] 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)
32] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
33] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
34] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
35] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
36] 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
37] 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.
38] 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.
39] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
40] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
41] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
42] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
43] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
44] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
45] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
46] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
47] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
48] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
49] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
50] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
51] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
52] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
53] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
54] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
55] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
56] 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
57] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
58] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
59] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
60] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
61] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
62] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
63] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
64] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
65] 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.
66] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
67] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
68] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
69] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
70] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
71] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
72] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
73] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
74] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
75] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
76] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
77] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
78] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
79] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
80] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
81] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
82] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
83] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
84] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
85] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
86] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
87] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
88] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
89] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
90] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
91] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
92] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
93] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
94] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
95] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
96] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
97] 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.
98] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
99] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
100] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
101] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
102] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
103] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
104] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
105] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
106] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
107] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
108] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
109] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
111] 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
112] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
113] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
114] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
115] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
116] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
117] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
118] 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)
119] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
120] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
121] 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.
122] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
123] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
124] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
125] 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.
126] 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
127] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
128] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
129] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
130] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
131] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
132] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
133] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
134] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
135] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
136] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
137] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
138] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
139] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
140] 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)
141] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
142] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
143] 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.
144] 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
145] 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
146] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
147] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
148] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
149] 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.
150] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
151] 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.
152] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
153] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
154] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
155] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
156] 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
157] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
158] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
159] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
160] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
161] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
162] 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
163] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
164] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
165] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
166] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
167] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
168] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
169] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
170] 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.
171] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
172] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
173] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
174] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
175] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
176] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
177] 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
178] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
179] 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.
180] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
181] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
182] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
183] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
184] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
185] 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)
186] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
187] 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.
188] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
189] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
190] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
191] 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
192] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
193] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
194] 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.
195] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
196] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
197] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
198] 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.
199] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
200] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
201] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
202] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
203] 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]
204] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
205] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
206] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
207] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
208] 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.
209] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
210] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
211] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
212] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
213] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
214] 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
215] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
216] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
217] 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
218] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
219] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
220] 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.
221] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
222] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
223] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
224] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
225] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
226] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
227] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
228] 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.
229] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
230] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
231] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
232] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
233] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
234] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
235] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
236] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
237] 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)
238] 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.
239] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
240] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
241] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
242] 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
243] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
244] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
245] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
246] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
247] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
248] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
249] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
250] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
251] 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.
252] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
253] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
254] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
255] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
256] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
257] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
258] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
259] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
260] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
261] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
262] 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
263] 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.
264] 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
265] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
266] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
267] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
268] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
269] 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)
270] 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
271] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
272] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
273] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
274] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
275] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
276] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
277] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
278] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
279] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
280] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
281] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
282] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
283] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
284] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
285] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
286] 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.
287] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
288] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
289] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
290] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
291] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
292] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
293] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
294] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
295] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
296] 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.
297] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
298] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
299] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
300] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
301] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
302] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
303] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
304] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
305] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
306] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
307] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
308] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
309] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
310] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
311] 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
312] 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)
313] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
314] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
315] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
316] 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
317] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
318] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
319] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
320] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
321] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
322] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
323] 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
324] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
325] 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
326] 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.
327] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
328] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
329] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
330] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
331] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
332] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
333] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
334] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
335] 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)
336] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
337] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
338] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
339] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
340] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
341] 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)
342] 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.
343] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
344] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
345] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
346] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
347] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
348] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
349] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
350] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
351] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
352] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
353] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
354] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
355] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
356] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
357] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
358] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
359] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
360] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
361] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
362] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
363] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
364] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
365] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
366] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
367] 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.
368] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
369] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
370] 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.
371] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
372] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
373] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
374] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
375] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
376] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
377] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
378] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
379] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
380] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
381] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
382] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
383] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
384] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
385] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
386] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
387] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
388] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
389] 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
390] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
391] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
392] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
393] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
394] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
395] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
396] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
397] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
398] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
399] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
400] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
401] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
402] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
403] 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
404] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
405] 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
406] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
407] 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.
408] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
409] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
410] 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)
411] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
412] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
413] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
414] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
415] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
416] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
417] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
418] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
419] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
420] 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).
421] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
422] 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.
423] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
424] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
425] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
426] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
427] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
428] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
429] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
430] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
431] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
432] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
433] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
434] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
435] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
436] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
437] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
438] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
439] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
440] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
441] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
442] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
443] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
444] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
445] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
446] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
447] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
448] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
449] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
450] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
451] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
452] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
453] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
454] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
455] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
456] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
457] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
458] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
459] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
460] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
461] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
462] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
463] 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.
464] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
465] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
466] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
467] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
468] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
469] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
470] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
471] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
472] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
473] 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
474] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
475] 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)
476] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
477] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
478] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
479] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
480] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
481] 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).
482] 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.
483] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
484] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
485] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
486] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
487] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
488] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
489] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
490] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
491] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
492] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
493] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] 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)
495] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
496] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
497] 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.
498] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
499] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
500] 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
501] 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.
502] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
503] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
504] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
505] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
506] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
507] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
508] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
509] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
510] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
511] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
512] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
513] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
514] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
515] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
516] 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)
517] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
518] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
519] 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.
520] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
521] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
522] 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
523] 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
524] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
525] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
526] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
527] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
528] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
529] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
530] 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.
531] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
533] 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
534] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
535] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
536] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
537] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
538] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
539] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
540] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
541] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
542] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
543] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
544] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
545] 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.
546] 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
547] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
548] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
549] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
550] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
551] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
552] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
553] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
554] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
555] 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
556] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
557] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
558] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
559] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
560] 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
561] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
562] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
563] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
564] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
565] 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)
566] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
567] 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
568] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
569] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
570] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
571] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
572] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
573] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
574] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
575] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
576] 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
577] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
578] 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
579] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
580] 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.
581] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
582] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
583] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
584] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
585] 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
586] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
587] 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.
588] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
589] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
590] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
591] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
592] 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
593] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
594] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
595] 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.
596] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
597] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
598] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
599] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
600] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.