Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
2] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
3] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
4] 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.
5] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
6] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
7] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
8] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
9] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
10] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
11] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
12] 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
13] 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)
14] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
15] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
16] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
17] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
18] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
19] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
20] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
21] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
22] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
23] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
24] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
25] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
26] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
27] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
28] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
29] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
30] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
31] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
32] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
33] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
34] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
35] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
36] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
37] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
38] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
39] 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.
40] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
41] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
42] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
43] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
44] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
45] 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)
46] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
47] 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
48] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
49] 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
50] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
51] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
52] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
53] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
54] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
55] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
56] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
57] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
58] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
59] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
60] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
61] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
62] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
63] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
64] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
65] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
66] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
67] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
68] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
69] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
70] 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.
71] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
72] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
73] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
74] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
75] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
76] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
77] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
78] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
79] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
80] 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
81] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
82] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
83] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
84] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
85] 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
86] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
87] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
88] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
89] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
90] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
91] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
92] 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)
93] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
94] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
95] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
96] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
97] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
98] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
99] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
100] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
101] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
102] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
103] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
104] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
105] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
106] 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)
107] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
108] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
109] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
110] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
111] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
112] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
113] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
114] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
115] 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.
116] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
117] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
118] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
119] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
120] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
121] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
122] 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
123] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
124] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
125] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
126] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
127] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
128] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
129] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
130] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
131] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
132] 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
133] 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.
134] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
135] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
136] 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.
137] Commonsense is not so common.
138] 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.
139] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
140] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
141] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
142] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
143] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
144] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
145] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
146] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
147] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
148] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
149] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
150] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
151] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
152] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
153] 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
154] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
155] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
156] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
157] 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
158] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
160] 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)
161] 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
162] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
163] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
164] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
165] 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)
166] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
167] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
168] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
169] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
170] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
171] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
172] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
173] 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.
174] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
175] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
176] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
177] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
178] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
179] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
180] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
181] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
182] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
183] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
184] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
185] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
186] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
187] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
188] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
189] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
190] 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.
191] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
192] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
193] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
194] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
195] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
196] 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.
197] 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.
198] 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).
199] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
200] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
201] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
202] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
203] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
204] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
205] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
206] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
207] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
208] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
209] 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)
210] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
211] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
212] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
213] 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.
214] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
215] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
216] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
217] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
218] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
219] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
220] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
221] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
222] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
223] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
224] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
225] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
227] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
228] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
229] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
230] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
231] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
232] 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)
233] 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.
234] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
235] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
236] 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
237] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
238] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
239] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
240] 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
241] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
242] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
243] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
244] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
245] 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.
246] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
247] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
248] 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.
249] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
250] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
251] 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 .
252] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
253] 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)
254] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
255] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
256] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
257] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
258] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
259] 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
260] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
261] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
262] 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.
263] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
264] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
265] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
266] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
267] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
268] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
269] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
270] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
271] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
272] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
273] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
274] 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.
275] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
276] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
277] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
278] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
279] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
280] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
281] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
282] 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)
283] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
284] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
285] 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.
286] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
287] 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]
288] 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.
289] 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
290] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
291] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
292] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
293] 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)
294] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
295] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
296] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
297] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
298] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
299] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
300] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
301] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
302] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
303] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
304] 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.
305] 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.
306] 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)
307] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
308] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
309] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
310] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
311] 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.
312] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
313] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
314] 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.
315] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
316] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
317] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
318] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
319] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
320] 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.
321] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
322] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
323] 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.
324] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
325] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
326] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
327] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
328] 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)
329] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
330] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
331] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
332] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
333] 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.
334] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
335] 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.
336] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
337] 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.
338] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
339] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
340] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
341] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
342] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
343] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
344] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
345] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
346] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
347] 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
348] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
349] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
350] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
351] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
352] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
353] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
354] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
355] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
356] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
357] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
358] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
359] 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
360] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
361] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
362] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
363] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
364] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
365] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
366] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
367] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
368] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
369] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
370] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
371] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
372] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
373] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
374] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
375] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
376] 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.
377] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
378] 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.
379] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
380] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
381] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
382] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
383] 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)
384] 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.”
385] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
386] 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.
387] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
388] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
389] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
390] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
391] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
392] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
393] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
394] 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)
395] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
396] 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.
397] 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.
398] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
399] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
400] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
401] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
402] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
403] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
404] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
405] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
406] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
407] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
408] 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)
409] 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
410] 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.
411] 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)
412] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
413] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
414] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
415] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
416] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
417] 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)
418] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
419] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
420] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
421] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
422] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
423] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
424] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
425] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
426] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
427] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
428] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
429] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
430] 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.
431] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
432] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
433] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
434] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
435] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
436] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
437] 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)
438] 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
439] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
440] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
441] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
442] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
443] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
444] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
445] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
446] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
447] 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).
448] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
449] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
450] 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
451] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
452] 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.
453] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
454] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
455] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
456] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
457] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
458] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
459] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
460] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
461] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
462] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
463] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
464] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
465] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
466] 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.
467] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
468] 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)
469] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
470] 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
471] 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)
472] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
473] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
474] 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.
475] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
476] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
477] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
478] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
479] 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.
480] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
481] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
482] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
483] 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
484] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
485] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
486] 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
487] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
488] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
489] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
490] 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)
491] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
492] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
493] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
494] 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.
495] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
496] 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.
497] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
498] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
499] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
500] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
501] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
502] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
503] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
504] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
505] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
506] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
507] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
508] 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.
509] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
510] 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
511] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
512] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
513] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
514] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
515] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
516] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
517] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
518] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
519] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
520] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
521] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
522] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
523] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
524] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
525] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
526] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
527] 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.
528] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
529] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
530] 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.
531] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
532] 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)
533] 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.
534] 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
535] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
536] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
537] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
538] 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.
539] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
540] 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
541] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
542] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
543] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
544] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
545] 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
546] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
547] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
548] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
549] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
550] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
551] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
552] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
553] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
554] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
555] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
556] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
557] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
558] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
559] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
560] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
561] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
562] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
563] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
564] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
565] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
566] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
567] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
568] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
569] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
570] 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.
571] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
572] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
573] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
574] 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.
575] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
576] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
577] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
578] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
579] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
581] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
582] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
583] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
584] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
585] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
586] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
587] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
588] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
589] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
590] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
591] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
592] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
593] 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
594] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
595] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
596] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
597] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
598] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
599] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
600] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)