Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
2] 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
3] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
4] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
5] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
7] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
8] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
9] 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.
10] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
11] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
12] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
13] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
14] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
15] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
16] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
17] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
18] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
19] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
20] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
21] 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
22] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
23] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
24] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
25] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
26] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
27] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
28] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
29] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
30] 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.
31] 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
32] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
33] 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
34] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
35] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
36] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
37] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
38] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
39] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
40] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
41] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
42] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
43] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
44] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
45] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
46] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
47] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
48] 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
49] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
50] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
51] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
52] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
53] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
54] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
55] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
56] 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
57] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
58] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
59] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
60] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
61] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
62] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
63] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
64] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
65] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
66] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
67] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
68] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
69] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
70] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
71] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
72] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
73] 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
74] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
75] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
76] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
77] 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.
78] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
79] 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
80] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
81] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
82] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
83] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
84] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
85] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
86] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
87] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
88] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
89] 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
90] 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.
91] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
92] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
93] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
94] 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
95] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
96] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
97] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
98] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
99] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
100] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
101] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
102] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
103] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
104] 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
105] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
106] 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
107] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
108] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
109] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
110] 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
111] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
112] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
113] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
114] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
115] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
116] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
117] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
118] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
119] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
120] 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.
121] 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.
122] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
123] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
124] 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
125] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
126] 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.
127] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
128] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
129] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
130] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
131] 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.
132] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
133] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
134] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
135] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
136] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
137] 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
138] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
139] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
140] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
141] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
142] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
143] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
144] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
145] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
146] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
147] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
148] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
149] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
150] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
151] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
152] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
153] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
154] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
155] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
156] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
157] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
158] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
159] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
160] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
161] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
162] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
163] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
164] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
165] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
166] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
167] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
168] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
169] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
170] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
171] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
172] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
173] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
174] 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.
175] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
176] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
177] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
178] 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
179] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
180] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
181] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
182] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
183] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
184] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
185] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
186] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
187] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
188] 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
189] 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.
190] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
191] 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
192] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
193] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
194] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
195] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
196] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
197] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
198] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
199] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
200] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
201] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
202] 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
203] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
204] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
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] 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)
207] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
208] 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.
209] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
210] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
211] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
212] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
213] 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
214] 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.
215] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
216] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
217] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
218] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
219] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
220] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
221] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
222] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
223] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
224] 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)
225] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
226] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
227] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
228] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
229] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
230] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
231] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
232] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
233] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
234] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
235] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
236] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
237] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
238] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
239] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
240] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
241] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
242] 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
243] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
244] 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
245] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
246] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
247] 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
248] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
249] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
250] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
251] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
252] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
253] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
254] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
255] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
256] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
257] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
258] 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
259] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
260] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
261] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
262] 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.
263] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
264] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
265] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
266] 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.
267] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
268] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
269] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
270] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
271] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
272] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
273] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
274] 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.
275] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
276] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
277] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
278] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
279] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
280] 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.
281] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
282] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
283] 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
284] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
285] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
286] 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.
287] 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
288] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
289] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
290] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
291] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
292] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
293] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
294] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
295] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
296] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
297] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
298] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
299] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
300] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
301] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
302] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
303] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
304] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
305] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
306] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
307] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
308] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
309] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
310] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
311] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
312] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
313] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
314] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
315] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
316] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
317] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
318] 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
319] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
320] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
321] 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
322] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
323] 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)
324] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
325] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
326] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
327] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
328] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
329] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
330] 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)
331] 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.
332] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
333] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
334] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
335] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
336] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
337] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
338] 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
339] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
340] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
341] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
342] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
343] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
344] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
345] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
346] 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
347] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
348] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
349] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
350] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
351] 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.
352] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
353] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
354] 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.
355] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
356] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
357] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
358] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
359] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
360] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
361] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
362] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
363] 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.
364] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
365] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
366] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
367] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
368] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
369] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
370] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
371] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
372] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
373] 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.
374] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
375] 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
376] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
377] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
378] 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.
379] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
380] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
381] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
382] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
383] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
384] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
385] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
386] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
387] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
388] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
389] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
390] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
391] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
392] 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
393] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
394] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
395] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
396] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
397] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
398] 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).
399] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
400] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
401] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
402] 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
403] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
404] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
405] 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)
406] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
407] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
408] 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.
409] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
410] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
411] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
412] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
413] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
414] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
415] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
416] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
417] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
418] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
419] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
420] 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.
421] 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)
422] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
423] 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)
424] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
425] 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.
426] 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)
427] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
428] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
429] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
430] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
431] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
432] 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
433] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
434] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
435] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
436] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
437] 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)
438] 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.
439] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
440] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
441] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
442] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
443] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
444] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
445] 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.
446] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
447] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
448] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
449] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
450] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
451] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
452] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
453] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
454] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
455] Commonsense is not so common.
456] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
457] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
458] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
459] 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.
460] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
461] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
462] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
463] 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)
464] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
465] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
466] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
467] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
468] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
469] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
470] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
471] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
472] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
473] 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.
474] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
475] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
476] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
477] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
478] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
479] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
480] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
481] 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.
482] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
483] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
484] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
485] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
486] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
487] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
488] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
489] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
490] 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).
491] 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.
492] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
493] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
494] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
495] 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)
496] 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)
497] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
498] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
499] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
500] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
501] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
502] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
503] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
504] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
505] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
506] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
507] 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.
508] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
509] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
510] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
511] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
512] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
513] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
514] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
515] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
516] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
517] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
518] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
519] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
520] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
521] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
522] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
523] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
524] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
525] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
526] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
527] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
528] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
529] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
530] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
531] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
532] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
533] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
534] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
535] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
536] 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)
537] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
538] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
539] 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.
540] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
541] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
542] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
543] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
544] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
545] 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
546] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
547] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
548] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
549] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
550] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
551] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
552] 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
553] 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.
554] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
555] 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).
556] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
557] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
558] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
559] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
560] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
562] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
563] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
564] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
565] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
566] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
567] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
568] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
569] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
570] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
571] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
572] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
573] 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.
574] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
575] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
576] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
577] 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
578] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
579] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
580] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
581] 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)
582] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
583] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
584] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
585] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
586] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
587] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
588] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
589] 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)
590] 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.
591] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
592] 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.
593] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
594] 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.
595] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
596] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
597] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
598] 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.
599] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
600] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.