Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
2] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
3] 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
4] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
5] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
6] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
7] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
8] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
9] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
10] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
11] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
12] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
13] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
14] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
15] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
16] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
17] 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.
18] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
19] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
20] 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
21] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
22] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
23] 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
24] 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
25] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
26] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
27] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
28] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
29] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
30] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
31] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
32] 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.
33] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
34] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
35] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
36] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
37] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
38] 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 .
39] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
40] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
41] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
42] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
43] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
44] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
45] 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
46] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
47] 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
48] 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
49] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
50] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
51] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
52] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
53] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
54] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
55] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
56] 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)
57] 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.
58] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
59] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
60] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
61] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
62] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
63] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
64] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
65] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
66] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
67] 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
68] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
69] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
70] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
71] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
72] 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]
73] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
74] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
75] 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
76] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
77] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
78] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
79] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
80] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
81] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
82] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
83] 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.
84] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
85] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
86] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
87] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
88] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
89] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
90] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
91] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
92] 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.
93] 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
94] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
95] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
96] 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.
97] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
98] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
99] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
100] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
101] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
102] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
103] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
104] 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.
105] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
106] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
107] 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.
108] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
109] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
110] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
111] 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
112] 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.
113] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
114] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
115] 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.
116] 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
117] 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)
118] 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.
119] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
120] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
121] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
122] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
123] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
124] 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.
125] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
126] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
127] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
128] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
129] 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.
130] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
131] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
132] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
133] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
134] 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
135] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
136] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
137] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
138] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
139] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
140] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
141] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
142] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
143] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
144] 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
145] 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).
146] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
147] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
148] 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.
149] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
150] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
151] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
152] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
153] 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
154] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
155] 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.
156] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
157] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
158] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
159] 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)
160] 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.
161] 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.
162] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
163] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
164] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
165] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
166] 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.
167] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
168] 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
169] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
170] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
171] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
172] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
173] 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.
174] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
175] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
176] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
177] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
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] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
180] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
181] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
182] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
183] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
184] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
185] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
186] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
187] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
188] 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
189] 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
190] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
191] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
192] 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).
193] 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.
194] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
195] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
196] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
197] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
198] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
199] 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.
200] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
201] 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.
202] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
203] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
204] 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.
205] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
206] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
207] 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.
208] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
209] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
210] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
211] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
212] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
213] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
214] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
215] 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
216] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
217] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
218] 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.
219] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
220] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
221] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
222] 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.
223] 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)
224] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
225] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
226] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
227] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
228] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
229] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
230] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
231] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
232] 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
233] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
234] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
235] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
236] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
237] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
238] 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)
239] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
240] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
242] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
243] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
244] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
245] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
246] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
247] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
248] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
249] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
250] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
251] 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.
252] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
253] 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
254] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
255] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
256] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
257] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
258] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
259] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
260] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
261] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
262] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
263] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
264] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
265] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
266] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
267] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
268] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
269] 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.
270] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
271] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
272] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
273] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
274] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
275] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
276] 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
277] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
278] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
279] 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.
280] 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)
281] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
282] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
283] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
284] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
285] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
286] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
287] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
288] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
289] 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)
290] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
291] 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.
292] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
293] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
294] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
295] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
296] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
297] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
298] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
299] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
300] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
301] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
302] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
303] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
304] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
305] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
306] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
307] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
308] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
309] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
310] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
311] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
312] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
313] 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.
314] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
315] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
316] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
317] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
318] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
319] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
320] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
321] 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
322] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
323] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
324] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
325] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
326] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
327] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
328] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
329] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
330] 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.
331] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
332] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
333] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
334] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
335] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
336] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
337] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
338] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
339] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
340] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
341] 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.
342] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
343] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
344] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
345] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
346] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
347] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
348] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
349] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
350] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
351] 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
352] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
353] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
354] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
355] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
356] 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
357] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
358] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
359] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
360] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
361] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
362] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
363] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
364] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
365] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
366] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
367] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
368] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
369] 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.
370] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
371] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
372] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
373] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
374] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
375] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
376] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
377] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
378] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
379] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
380] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
381] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
382] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
383] 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.
384] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
385] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
386] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
387] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
388] 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
389] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
390] 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.
391] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
392] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
393] 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
394] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
395] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
396] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
397] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
398] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
399] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
400] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
401] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
402] 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
403] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
404] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
405] 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.
406] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
407] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
408] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
409] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
410] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
411] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
412] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
413] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
414] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
415] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
416] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
417] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
418] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
419] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
420] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
421] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
422] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
423] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
424] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
425] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
426] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
427] 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)
428] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
429] 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)
430] 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
431] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
432] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
433] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
434] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
435] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
436] 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)
437] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
438] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
439] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
440] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
441] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
442] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
443] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
444] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
445] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
446] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
447] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
448] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
449] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
450] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
451] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
452] 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.
453] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
454] 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
455] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
456] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
457] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
458] 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.
459] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
460] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
461] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
462] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
463] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
464] 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
465] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
466] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
467] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
468] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
469] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
470] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
471] 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)
472] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
473] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
474] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
475] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
476] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
477] 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
478] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
479] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
480] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
481] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
482] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
483] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
484] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
485] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
486] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
487] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
488] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
489] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
490] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
491] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
492] 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.
493] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
494] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
495] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
496] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
497] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
498] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
499] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
500] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
501] 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)
502] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
503] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
504] 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
505] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
506] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
507] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
508] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
509] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
510] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
511] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
512] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
513] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
514] 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
515] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
516] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
517] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
518] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
519] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
520] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
521] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
522] 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
523] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
524] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
525] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
526] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
527] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
528] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
529] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
530] Commonsense is not so common.
531] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
532] 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
533] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
534] 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 .
535] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
536] 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.
537] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
538] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
539] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
540] 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.
541] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
542] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
543] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
544] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
545] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
546] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
547] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
548] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
549] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
550] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
551] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
552] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
553] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
554] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
555] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
556] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
557] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
558] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
559] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
560] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
561] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
562] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
563] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
564] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
565] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
566] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
567] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
568] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
569] 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
570] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
571] 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.
572] 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.
573] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
574] 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
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] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
577] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
578] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
579] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
580] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
581] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
582] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
583] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
584] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
585] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
586] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
587] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
588] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
589] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
590] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
591] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
592] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
593] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
594] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
595] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
596] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
597] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
598] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
599] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
600] 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.