Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
2] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
3] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
4] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
5] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
6] 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.
7] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
8] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
9] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
10] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
11] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
12] 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
13] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
14] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
15] 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
16] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
17] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
18] 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)
19] 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.
20] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
21] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
22] 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.
23] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
24] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
25] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
26] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
27] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
28] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
29] 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.
30] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
31] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
32] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
33] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
34] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
35] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
36] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
37] 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
38] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
39] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
40] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
41] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
42] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
43] 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
44] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
45] 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
46] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
47] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
48] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
49] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
50] 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)
51] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
52] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
53] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
54] 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.
55] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
56] 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.
57] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
58] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
59] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
60] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
61] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
62] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
63] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
64] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
65] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
66] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
67] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
68] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
69] 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)
70] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
71] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
72] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
73] 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.”
74] 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.
75] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
76] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
77] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
78] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
79] 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.
80] 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.
81] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
82] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
83] 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.
84] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
85] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
86] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
87] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
88] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
89] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
90] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
91] 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.
92] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
93] 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)
94] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
95] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
96] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
97] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
98] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
99] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
100] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
101] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
102] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
103] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
104] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
105] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
106] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
107] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
108] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
109] 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.
110] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
111] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
112] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
113] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
114] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
115] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
116] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
117] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
118] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
119] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
120] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
121] 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.
122] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
123] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
124] 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
125] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
126] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
127] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
128] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
129] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
130] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
131] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
132] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
133] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
134] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
135] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
136] 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)
137] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
138] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
139] 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.
140] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
141] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
142] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
143] 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.
144] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
145] 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.
146] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
147] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
148] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
149] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
150] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
151] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
152] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
153] 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.
154] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
155] 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
156] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
157] 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.
158] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
159] 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.
160] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
161] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
162] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
163] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
164] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
165] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
166] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
167] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
168] 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.
169] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
170] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
171] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
172] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
173] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
174] 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)
175] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
176] 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.
177] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
178] 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)
179] 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.
180] 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)
181] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
182] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
183] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
184] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
185] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
186] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
187] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
188] 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.
189] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
190] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
191] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
192] 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.
193] 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.
194] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
195] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
196] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
197] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
198] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
199] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
200] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
201] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
202] 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.
203] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
204] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
205] 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).
206] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
207] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
208] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
209] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
210] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
211] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
212] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
213] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
214] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
215] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
216] 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.
217] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
218] 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).
219] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
220] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
221] 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
222] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
223] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
224] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
225] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
226] 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)
227] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
228] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
229] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
230] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
231] 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.
232] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
233] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
234] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
235] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
236] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
237] 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)
238] 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)
239] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
240] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
241] 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
242] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
243] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] 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
245] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
246] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
247] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
248] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
249] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
250] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
251] 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.
252] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
253] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
254] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
255] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
256] 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.
257] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
258] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
259] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
260] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
261] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
262] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
263] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
264] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
265] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
266] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
267] 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.
268] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
269] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
270] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
271] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
272] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
273] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
274] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
275] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
276] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
277] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
278] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
279] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
280] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
281] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
282] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
283] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
284] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
285] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
286] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
287] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
288] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
289] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
290] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
291] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
292] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
293] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
294] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
295] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
296] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
297] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
298] 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.
299] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
300] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
301] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
302] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
303] 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
304] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
305] 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
306] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
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] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
309] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
310] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
311] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
312] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
313] 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
314] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
315] 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
316] 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.
317] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
318] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
319] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
320] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
321] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
322] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
323] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
324] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
325] 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
326] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
327] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
328] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
329] 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
330] 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.
331] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
332] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
333] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
334] 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.
335] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
336] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
337] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
338] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
339] 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.
340] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
341] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
342] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
343] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
344] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
345] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
346] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
347] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
348] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
349] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
350] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
351] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
352] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
353] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
354] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
355] 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)
356] 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
357] 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).
358] 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.
359] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
360] 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.
361] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
362] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
363] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
364] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
365] 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.
366] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
367] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
368] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
369] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
370] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
371] 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 .
372] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
373] 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
374] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
375] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
376] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
377] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
378] 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.
379] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
380] 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.
381] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
382] 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
383] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
384] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
385] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
386] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
387] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
388] 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.
389] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
390] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
391] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
392] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
393] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
394] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
395] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
396] 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
397] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
398] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
399] 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.
400] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
401] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
402] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
403] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
404] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
405] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
406] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
407] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
408] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
409] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
410] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
411] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
412] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
413] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
414] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
415] 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.
416] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
417] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
418] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
419] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
420] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
421] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
422] 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.
423] 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
424] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
425] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
426] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
427] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
428] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
429] 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
430] 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.
431] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
432] 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.
433] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
434] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
435] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
436] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
437] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
438] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
439] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
440] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
441] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
442] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
443] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
444] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
445] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
446] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
447] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
448] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
449] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
450] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
451] 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
452] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
453] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
454] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
455] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
456] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
457] 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
458] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
459] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
460] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
461] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
462] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
463] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
464] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
465] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
466] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
467] 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
468] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
469] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
470] 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)
471] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
472] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
473] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
474] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
475] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
476] 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
477] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
478] 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.
479] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
480] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
481] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
482] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
483] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
484] 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)
485] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
486] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
487] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
488] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
489] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
490] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
491] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
492] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
493] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
494] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
495] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
496] 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.
497] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
498] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
499] 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.
500] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
501] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
502] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
503] 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)
504] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
505] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
506] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
507] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
508] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
509] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
510] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
511] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
512] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
513] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
514] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
515] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
516] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
517] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
518] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
519] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
520] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
521] 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
522] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
523] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
524] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
525] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
526] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
527] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
528] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
529] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
530] 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)
531] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
532] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
533] 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.
534] 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
535] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
536] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
537] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
538] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
539] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
540] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
541] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
542] 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]
543] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
544] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
545] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
546] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
547] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
548] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
549] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
550] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
551] 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
552] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
553] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
554] 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]
555] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
556] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
557] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
558] 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.
559] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
560] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
561] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
562] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
563] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
564] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
565] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
566] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
567] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
568] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
569] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
570] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
571] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
572] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
573] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
574] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
575] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
576] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
577] 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
578] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
579] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
580] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
581] 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.
582] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
583] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
584] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
585] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
586] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
587] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
588] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
589] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
590] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
591] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
592] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
593] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
594] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
595] 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.
596] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
597] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
598] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
599] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
600] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard