Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
2] 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
3] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
4] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
5] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
6] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
7] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
8] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
9] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
10] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
11] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
12] 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.
13] 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.
14] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
15] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
16] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
17] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
18] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
19] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
21] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
22] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
23] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
24] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
25] 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
26] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
27] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
28] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
29] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
30] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
31] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
32] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
33] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
34] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
35] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
36] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
37] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
38] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
39] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
40] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
41] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
42] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
43] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
44] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
45] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
46] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
47] 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.
48] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
49] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
50] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
51] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
52] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
53] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
54] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
55] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
56] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
57] 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)
58] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
59] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
60] 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.
61] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
62] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
63] 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.
64] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
65] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
66] 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.
67] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
68] 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.
69] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
70] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
71] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
72] 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.
73] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
74] 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
75] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
76] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
77] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
78] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
79] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
80] 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.
81] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
82] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
83] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
84] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
85] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
86] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
87] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
88] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
89] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
90] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
91] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
92] 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.
93] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
94] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
95] 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.
96] 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
97] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
98] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
99] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
100] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
101] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
102] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
103] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
104] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
105] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
106] 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)
107] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
108] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
109] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
110] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
111] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
112] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
113] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
114] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
115] 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
116] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
117] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
118] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
119] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
120] 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.
121] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
122] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
123] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
124] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
125] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
126] 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.
127] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
128] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
129] 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.
130] 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
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] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
133] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
134] 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
135] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
136] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
137] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
138] 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.
139] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
140] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
141] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
142] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
143] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
144] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
145] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
146] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
147] 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.
148] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
149] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
150] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
151] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
152] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
153] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
154] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
155] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
156] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
157] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
158] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
159] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
160] 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
161] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
162] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
163] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
164] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
165] 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.
166] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
167] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
168] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
169] 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.
170] 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
171] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
172] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
173] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
174] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
175] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
176] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
177] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
178] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
179] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
180] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
181] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
182] 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
183] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
184] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
185] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
186] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
187] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
188] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
189] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
190] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
191] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
192] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
193] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
194] 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.
195] 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.
196] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
197] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
198] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
199] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
200] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
201] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
202] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
203] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
204] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
205] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
206] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
207] 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
208] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
209] 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
210] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
211] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
212] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
213] 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.
214] 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.
215] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
216] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
217] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
218] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
219] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
220] 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).
221] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
222] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
223] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
224] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
225] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
226] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
227] 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)
228] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
229] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
230] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
231] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
232] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
233] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
234] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
235] 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
236] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
237] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
238] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
239] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
240] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
241] 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
242] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
243] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
244] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
245] 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.
246] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
247] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
248] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
249] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
250] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
251] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
252] 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)
253] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
254] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
255] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
256] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
257] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
258] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
259] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
260] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
261] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
262] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
263] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
264] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
265] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
266] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
267] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
268] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
269] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
270] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
271] 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
272] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
273] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
274] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
275] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
276] 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.
277] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
278] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
279] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
280] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
281] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
282] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
283] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
284] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
285] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
286] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
287] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
288] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
289] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
290] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
291] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
292] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
293] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
294] 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
295] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
296] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
297] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
298] 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.
299] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
300] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
301] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
302] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
303] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
304] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
305] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
306] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
307] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
308] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
309] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
310] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
311] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
312] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
313] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
314] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
315] 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)
316] 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.
317] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
318] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
319] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
320] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
321] 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.
322] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
323] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
324] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
325] 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
326] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
327] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
328] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
329] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
330] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
331] 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.
332] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
333] 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
334] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
335] 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.
336] 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.
337] 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
338] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
339] 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)
340] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
341] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
342] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
343] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
344] 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.
345] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
346] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
347] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
348] 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.
349] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
350] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
351] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
352] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
353] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
354] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
355] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
356] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
357] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
358] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
359] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
360] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
361] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
362] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
363] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
364] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
365] 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.
366] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
367] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
368] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
369] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
370] 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).
371] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
372] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
373] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
374] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
375] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
376] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
377] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
378] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
379] 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)
380] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
381] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
382] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
383] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
384] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
385] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
386] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
387] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
388] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
389] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
390] 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.
391] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
392] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
393] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
394] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
395] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
396] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
397] 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.”
398] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
399] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
400] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
401] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
402] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
403] 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).
404] 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
405] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
406] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
407] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
408] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
409] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
410] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
411] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
412] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
413] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
414] 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.
415] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
416] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
417] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
418] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
419] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
420] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
421] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
422] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
423] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
424] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
425] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
426] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
427] 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.
428] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
429] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
430] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
431] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
432] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
433] 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
434] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
435] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
436] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
437] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
438] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
439] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
440] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
441] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
442] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
443] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
444] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
445] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
446] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
447] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
448] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
449] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
450] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
451] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
452] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
453] 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.
454] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
455] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
456] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
457] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
458] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
459] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
460] 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.
461] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
462] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
463] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
464] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
465] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
466] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
467] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
468] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
469] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
470] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
471] 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
472] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
473] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
474] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
475] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
476] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
477] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
478] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
479] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
480] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
481] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
482] 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)
483] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
484] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
485] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
486] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
487] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
488] 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
489] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
490] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
491] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
492] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
493] 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.
494] 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
495] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
496] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
497] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
498] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
499] 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
500] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
501] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
502] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
503] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
504] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
505] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
506] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
507] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
508] 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.
509] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
510] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
511] 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.
512] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
513] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
514] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
515] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
516] 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.
517] 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.
518] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
519] 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
520] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
521] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
522] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
523] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
524] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
525] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
526] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
527] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
528] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
529] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
530] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
531] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
532] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
533] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
534] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
535] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
536] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
537] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
538] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
539] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
540] 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
541] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
542] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
543] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] 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.
545] 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
546] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
547] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
548] 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)
549] 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.
550] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
551] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
552] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
553] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
554] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
555] 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.
556] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
557] 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
558] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
559] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
560] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
561] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
562] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
563] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
564] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
565] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
566] 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)
567] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
568] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
569] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
570] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
571] 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.
572] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
573] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
574] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
575] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
576] 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.
577] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
578] 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.
579] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
580] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
581] 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
582] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
583] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
584] 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.
585] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
586] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
587] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
588] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
589] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
590] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
591] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
592] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
593] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
594] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
595] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
596] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
597] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
598] 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)
599] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
600] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.