Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
2] 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
3] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
4] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
5] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
6] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
7] 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.
8] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
9] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
10] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
11] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
12] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
13] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
14] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
15] 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.
16] 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)
17] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
18] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
19] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
20] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
21] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
22] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
23] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
24] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
25] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
26] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
27] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
28] 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
29] 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
30] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
31] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
32] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
33] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
34] 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
35] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
36] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
37] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
38] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
39] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
40] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
41] 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)
42] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
43] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
44] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
45] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
46] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
47] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
48] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
49] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
50] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
51] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
52] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
53] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
54] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
55] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
56] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
57] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
58] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
59] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
60] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
61] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
62] 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.
63] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
64] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
65] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
66] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
67] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
68] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
69] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
70] 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
71] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
72] 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.
73] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
74] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
75] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
76] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
77] 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)
78] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
79] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
80] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
81] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
82] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
83] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
84] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
85] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
86] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
87] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
88] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
89] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
90] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
91] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
92] 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.
93] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
94] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
95] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
96] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
97] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
98] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
99] 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)
100] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
101] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
102] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
103] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
104] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
105] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
106] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
107] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
108] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
109] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
110] 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.
111] 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
112] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
113] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
114] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
115] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] 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)
117] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
118] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
119] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
120] 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
121] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
122] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
123] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
124] 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.
125] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
126] 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
127] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
128] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
129] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
130] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
131] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
132] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
133] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
134] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
135] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
136] 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
137] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
138] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
139] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
140] 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
141] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
142] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
143] 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
144] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
145] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
146] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
147] 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
148] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
149] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
150] 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.
151] 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
152] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
153] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
154] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
155] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
156] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
157] 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)
158] 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.
159] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
160] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
161] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
162] 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
163] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
164] 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
165] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
166] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
167] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
168] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
169] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
170] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
171] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
172] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
173] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
174] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
175] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
176] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
177] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
178] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
179] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
180] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
181] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
182] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
183] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
184] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
185] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
186] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
187] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
188] 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.
189] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
190] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
191] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
192] 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
193] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
194] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
195] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
196] 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.
197] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
198] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
199] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
200] 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.
201] 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
202] 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.
203] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
204] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
205] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
206] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
207] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
208] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
209] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
210] 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)
211] 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
212] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
213] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
214] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
215] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
216] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
217] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
218] 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.
219] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
220] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
221] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
222] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
223] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
224] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
225] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
226] 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.
227] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
228] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
229] 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
230] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
231] 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)
232] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
233] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
234] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
235] 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.
236] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
237] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
238] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
239] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
240] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
242] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
243] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
244] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
245] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
246] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
247] 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).
248] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
249] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
250] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
251] 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.
252] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
253] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
254] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
255] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
256] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
257] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
258] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
259] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
260] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
261] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
262] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
263] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
264] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
265] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
266] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
267] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
268] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
269] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
270] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
271] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
272] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
273] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
274] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
275] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
276] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
277] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
278] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
279] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
280] 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.
281] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
282] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
283] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
284] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
285] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
286] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
287] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
288] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
289] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
290] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
291] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
292] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
293] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
294] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
295] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
296] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
297] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
298] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
299] 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.
300] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
301] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
302] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
303] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
304] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
305] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
306] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
307] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
308] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
309] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
310] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
311] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
312] 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)
313] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
314] 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)
315] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
316] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
317] 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.
318] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
319] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
320] 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
321] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
322] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] 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.
324] 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
325] 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)
326] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
327] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
328] 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.
329] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
330] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
331] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
332] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
333] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
334] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
335] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
336] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
337] Commonsense is not so common.
338] 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)
339] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
340] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
341] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
342] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
343] 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
344] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
345] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
346] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
347] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
348] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
349] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
350] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
351] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
352] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
353] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
354] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
355] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
356] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
357] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
358] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
359] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
360] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
361] 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
362] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
363] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
364] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
365] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
366] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
367] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
368] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
369] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
370] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
371] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
372] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
373] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
374] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
375] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
376] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
377] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
378] 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)
379] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
380] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
381] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
382] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
383] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
384] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
385] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
386] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
387] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
388] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
389] 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
390] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
391] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
392] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
393] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
394] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
395] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
396] 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
397] 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
398] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
399] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
400] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
401] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
402] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
403] 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.
404] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
405] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
406] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
407] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
408] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
409] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
410] 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.
411] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
412] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
413] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
414] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
415] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
416] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
417] 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)
418] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
419] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
420] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
421] 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
422] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
423] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
424] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
425] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
426] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
427] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
428] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
429] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
430] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
431] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
432] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
433] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
434] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
435] 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
436] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
437] 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)
438] 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
439] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
440] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
441] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
442] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
443] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
444] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
445] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
446] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
447] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
448] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
449] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
450] 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
451] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
452] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
453] 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
454] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
455] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
456] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
457] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
458] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
459] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
460] 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
461] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
462] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
463] 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.
464] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
465] 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.
466] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
467] 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
468] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
469] 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)
470] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
471] 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
472] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
473] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
474] 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
475] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
476] 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
477] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
478] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
479] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
480] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
481] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
482] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
483] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
484] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
485] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
486] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
487] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
488] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
489] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
490] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
491] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
492] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
493] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
494] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
495] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
496] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
497] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
498] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
499] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
500] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
501] 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.
502] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
503] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
504] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
505] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
506] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
507] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
508] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
509] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
510] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
511] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
512] 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
513] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
514] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
515] 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.
516] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
517] 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)
518] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
519] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
520] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
521] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
522] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
523] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
524] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
525] 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.
526] 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.
527] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
528] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
529] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
530] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
531] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
532] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
533] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
534] 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.
535] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
536] 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
537] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
538] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
539] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
540] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
541] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
542] 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
543] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
544] 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.
545] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
546] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
547] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
548] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
549] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
550] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
551] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
552] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
553] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
554] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
555] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
556] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
557] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
558] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
559] 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
560] 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.
561] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
562] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
563] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
564] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
565] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
566] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
567] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
568] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
569] 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
570] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
571] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
572] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
573] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
574] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
575] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
576] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
577] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
578] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
579] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
580] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
581] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
582] 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
583] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
584] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
585] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
586] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
587] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
588] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
589] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
590] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
591] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
592] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
593] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
594] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
595] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
596] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
597] 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
598] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
599] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
600] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.