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Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
2] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
3] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
4] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
5] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
6] 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.
7] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
8] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
9] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
10] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
11] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
12] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
14] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
15] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
16] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
17] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
18] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
19] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
20] 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.
21] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
22] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
23] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
24] 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
25] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
26] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
27] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
28] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
29] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
30] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
31] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
32] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
33] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
34] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
35] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
36] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
37] 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
38] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
39] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
40] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
41] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
42] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
43] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
44] 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.
45] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
46] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
47] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
48] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
49] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
50] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
51] 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.
52] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
53] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
54] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
55] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
56] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
57] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
58] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
59] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
60] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
61] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
62] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
63] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
65] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
66] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
67] 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
68] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
69] 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)
70] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
71] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
72] 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
73] 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.
74] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
75] 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.
76] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
77] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
78] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
79] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
80] 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
81] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
82] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
83] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
84] 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
85] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
86] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
87] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
88] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
89] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
90] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
91] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
92] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
93] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
94] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
95] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
96] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
97] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
98] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
99] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
100] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
101] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
102] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
103] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
104] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
105] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
106] 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)
107] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
108] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
109] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
110] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
111] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
112] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
113] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
114] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
115] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
116] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
117] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
118] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
119] 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
120] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
121] 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.
122] 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
123] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
124] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
125] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
126] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
127] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
128] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
129] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
130] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
131] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
132] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
133] 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
134] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
135] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
136] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
137] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
138] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
139] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
140] 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)
141] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
142] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
143] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
144] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
145] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
146] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
147] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
148] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
149] 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.
150] 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)
151] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
152] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
153] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
154] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
155] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
156] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
157] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
158] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
159] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
160] 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.
161] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
162] 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).
163] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
164] 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
165] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
166] 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
167] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
168] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
169] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
170] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
171] 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.
172] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
173] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
174] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
175] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
176] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
177] 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.
178] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
179] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
180] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
181] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
182] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
183] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
184] 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
185] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
186] 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.
187] 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.
188] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
189] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
190] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
191] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
192] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
193] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
194] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
195] 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
196] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
197] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
198] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
199] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
200] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
201] 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.
202] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
203] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
204] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
205] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
206] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
207] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
208] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
209] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
210] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
211] 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.
212] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
213] 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.
214] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
215] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
216] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
217] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
218] 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
219] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
220] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
221] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
222] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
223] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
224] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
225] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
226] 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.
227] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
228] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
229] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
230] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
231] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
232] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
233] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
234] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
235] 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
236] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
237] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
238] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
239] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
240] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
241] 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.
242] 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)
243] 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
244] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
245] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
246] 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)
247] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
248] 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
249] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
250] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
251] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
252] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
253] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
254] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
255] 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
256] 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
257] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
258] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
259] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
260] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
261] 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
262] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
263] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
264] 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)
265] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
266] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
267] 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
268] 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.
269] 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
270] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
271] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
272] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
273] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
274] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
275] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
276] 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
277] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
278] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
279] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
280] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
281] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
282] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
283] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
284] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
285] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
286] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
287] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
288] 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)
289] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
290] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
291] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
292] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
293] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
294] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
295] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
296] 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
297] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
298] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
299] 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
300] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
301] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
302] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
303] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
304] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
305] 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)
306] 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
307] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
308] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
309] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
310] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
311] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
312] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
313] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
314] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
315] 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.
316] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
317] 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.
318] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
319] Commonsense is not so common.
320] 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
321] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
322] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
323] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
324] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
325] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
326] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
327] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
328] 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)
329] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
330] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
331] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
332] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
333] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
334] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
335] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
336] 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]
337] 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.
338] 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.
339] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
340] 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
341] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
342] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
343] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
344] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
345] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
346] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
347] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
348] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
349] 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
350] 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.
351] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
352] 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
353] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
354] 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
355] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
356] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
357] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
358] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
359] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
360] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
361] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
362] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
363] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
364] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
365] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
366] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
367] 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.
368] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
369] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
370] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
371] 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.
372] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
373] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
374] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
375] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
376] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
377] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
378] 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).
379] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
380] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
381] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
382] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
383] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
384] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
385] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
386] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
387] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
388] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
389] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
390] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
391] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
392] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
393] 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
394] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
395] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
396] 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.
397] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
398] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
399] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
400] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
401] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
402] 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
403] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
404] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
405] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
406] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
407] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
408] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
409] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
410] 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.
411] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
412] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
413] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
414] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
415] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
416] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
417] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
418] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
419] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
420] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
421] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
422] 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.
423] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
424] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
425] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
426] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
427] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
428] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
429] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
430] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
431] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
432] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
433] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
434] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
435] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
436] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
437] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
438] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
439] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
440] 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.
441] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
442] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
443] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
444] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
445] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
446] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
447] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
448] 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
449] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
450] 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.
451] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
452] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
453] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
454] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
455] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
456] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
457] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
458] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
459] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
460] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
461] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
462] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
463] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
464] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
465] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
466] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
467] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
468] 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.
469] 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.
470] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
471] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
472] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
473] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
474] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
475] 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).
476] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
477] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
478] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
479] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
480] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
481] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
482] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
483] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
484] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
485] 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.
486] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
487] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
488] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
489] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
490] 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.
491] 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
492] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
493] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
494] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
495] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
496] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
497] 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.
498] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
499] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
500] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
501] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
502] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
503] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
504] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
505] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
506] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
507] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
508] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
509] 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.
510] 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.
511] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
512] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
513] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
514] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
515] 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)
516] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
517] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
518] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
519] 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.
520] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
521] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
522] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
523] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
524] 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.”
525] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
526] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
527] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
528] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
529] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
530] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
531] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
532] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
533] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
534] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
535] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
536] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
537] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
538] 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.
539] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
540] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
541] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
542] 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
543] 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
544] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
545] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
546] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
547] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
548] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
549] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
550] 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.
551] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
552] 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
553] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
554] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
555] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
556] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
557] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
558] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
559] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
560] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
561] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
562] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
563] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
564] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
565] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
566] 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
567] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
568] 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)
569] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
570] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
571] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
572] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
573] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
574] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
575] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
576] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
577] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
578] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
579] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
580] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
581] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
582] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
583] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
584] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
585] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
586] 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.
587] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
588] 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)
589] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
590] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
591] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
592] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
593] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
594] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
595] 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.
596] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
597] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
598] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
599] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
600] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato



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