Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
2] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
3] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
4] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
5] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
6] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
7] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
8] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
9] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
10] 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)
11] 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)
12] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
13] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
14] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
15] 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.
16] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
17] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
18] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
19] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
20] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
21] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
22] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
23] 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)
24] 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.
25] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
26] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
27] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
28] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
29] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
30] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
31] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
32] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
33] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
34] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
35] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
36] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
37] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
38] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
39] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
40] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
41] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
42] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
43] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
44] 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
45] 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
46] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
47] 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.
48] 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
49] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
50] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
51] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
52] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
53] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
54] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
55] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
56] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
57] 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
58] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
59] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
60] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
61] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
62] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
63] 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
64] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
65] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
66] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
67] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
68] 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)
69] 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.
70] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
71] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
72] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
73] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
74] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
75] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
76] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
77] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
78] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
79] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
80] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
81] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
82] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
83] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
84] 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.
85] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
86] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
87] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
88] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
89] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
90] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
91] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
92] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
93] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
94] 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)
95] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
96] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
97] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
98] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
99] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
100] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
101] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
102] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
103] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
104] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
105] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
106] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
107] 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)
108] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
109] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
110] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
111] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
112] 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)
113] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
114] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
115] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
116] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
117] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
118] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
119] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
120] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
121] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
122] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
123] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
124] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
125] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
126] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
127] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
128] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
129] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
130] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
131] 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
132] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
133] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
134] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
135] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
136] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
137] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
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] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
140] 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
141] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
142] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
143] 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
144] 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
145] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
146] 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
147] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
148] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
149] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
150] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
151] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
152] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
153] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
154] 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)
155] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
156] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
157] 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.
158] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
159] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
160] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
161] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
162] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
163] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
164] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
165] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
166] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
167] 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.
168] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
169] 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
170] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
171] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
172] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
173] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
174] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
175] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
176] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
177] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
178] 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
179] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
180] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
181] 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
182] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
183] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
184] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
185] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
186] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
187] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
188] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
189] 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
190] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
191] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
192] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
193] 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
194] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
195] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
196] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
197] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
198] 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)
199] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
200] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
201] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
202] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
203] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
204] 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.
205] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
206] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
207] 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.
208] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
209] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
210] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
211] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
212] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
213] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
214] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
215] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
216] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
217] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
218] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
219] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
220] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
221] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
222] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
223] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
224] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
225] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
226] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
227] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
228] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
229] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
230] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
231] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
232] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
233] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] 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.
235] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
236] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
237] 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]
238] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
239] 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.
240] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
241] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
242] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
243] 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.
244] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
245] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
246] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
247] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
248] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
249] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
250] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
251] 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.
252] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
253] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
254] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
255] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
256] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
257] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
258] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
259] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
260] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
261] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
262] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
263] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
264] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
265] 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.
266] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
267] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
268] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
269] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
270] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
271] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
272] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
273] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
274] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
275] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
276] 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.
277] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
278] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
279] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
280] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
281] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
282] 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.
283] 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).
284] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
285] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
286] 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
287] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
288] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
289] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
290] 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.
291] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
292] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
293] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
294] 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.
295] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
296] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
297] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
298] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
299] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
300] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
301] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
302] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
303] 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.
304] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
305] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
306] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
307] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
308] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
309] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
310] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
311] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
312] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
313] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
314] 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.
315] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
316] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
317] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
318] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
319] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
320] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
321] 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
322] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
323] 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 .
324] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
325] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
326] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
327] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
328] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
329] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
330] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
331] 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
332] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
333] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
334] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
335] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
336] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
337] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
338] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
339] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
340] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
341] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
342] 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.
343] 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 .
344] 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.
345] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
346] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
347] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
348] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
349] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
350] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
351] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
352] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
353] 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.
354] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
355] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
356] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
357] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
358] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
359] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
360] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
361] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
362] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
363] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
364] 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.
365] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
366] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
367] 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.
368] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
369] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
370] 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
371] 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
372] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
373] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
374] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
375] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
376] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
377] 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.
378] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
379] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
380] 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
381] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
382] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
383] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
384] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
385] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
386] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
387] 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
388] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
389] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
390] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
391] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
392] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
393] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
394] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
395] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
396] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
397] 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
398] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
399] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
400] 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
401] 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.
402] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
403] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
404] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
405] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
406] 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.”
407] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
408] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
409] 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
410] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
411] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
412] 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).
413] 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
414] 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.
415] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
416] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
417] 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.
418] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
419] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
420] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
421] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
422] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
423] 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
424] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
425] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
426] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
427] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
428] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
429] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
430] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
431] 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)
432] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
433] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
434] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
435] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
436] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
437] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
438] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
439] 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.
440] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
441] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
442] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
443] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
444] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
445] Commonsense is not so common.
446] 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.
447] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
448] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
449] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
450] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
451] Commonsense is not so common.
452] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
453] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
454] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
455] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
456] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
457] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
458] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
459] 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.
460] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
461] 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
462] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
463] 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.
464] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
465] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
466] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
467] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
468] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
469] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
470] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
471] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
472] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
473] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
474] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
475] 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
476] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
477] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
478] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
479] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
480] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
481] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
482] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
483] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
484] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
485] 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.
486] 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.
487] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
488] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
489] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
490] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
491] 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
492] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
493] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
494] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
495] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
496] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
497] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
498] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
499] 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
500] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
501] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
502] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
503] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
504] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
505] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
506] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
507] 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.
508] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
509] 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.
510] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
511] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
512] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
513] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
514] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
515] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
516] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
517] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
518] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
519] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
520] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
521] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
522] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
523] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
524] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
525] 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.
526] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
527] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
528] 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.
529] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
530] 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
531] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
532] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
533] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
534] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
535] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
536] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
537] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
538] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
539] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
540] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
541] 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.
542] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
543] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
544] 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
545] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
546] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
547] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
548] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
549] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
550] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
551] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
552] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
553] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
554] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
555] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
556] 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
557] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
558] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
559] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
560] 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
561] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
562] 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)
563] 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.
564] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
565] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
566] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
567] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
568] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
569] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
570] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
571] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
572] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
573] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
574] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
575] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
576] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
577] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
578] 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
579] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
580] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
581] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
582] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
583] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
584] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
585] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
586] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
587] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
588] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
589] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
590] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
591] 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.
592] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
593] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
594] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
595] 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)
596] 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).
597] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
598] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
599] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
600] 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.