Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
3] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
4] 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.
5] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
6] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
7] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
8] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
9] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
10] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
11] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
12] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
13] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
14] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
15] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
16] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
17] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
18] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
19] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
20] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
21] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
22] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
23] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
24] 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
25] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
26] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
27] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
28] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
29] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
30] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
31] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
32] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
33] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
35] 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)
36] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
37] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
38] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
39] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
40] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
41] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
42] 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)
43] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
44] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
45] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
46] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
47] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
48] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
49] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
50] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
51] 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.
52] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
53] 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.
54] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
55] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
56] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
57] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
58] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
59] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
60] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
61] 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.
62] 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
63] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
64] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
65] 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.
66] 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)
67] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
68] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
69] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
70] 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
71] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
72] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
73] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
74] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
75] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
76] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
77] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
78] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
79] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
80] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
81] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
82] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
83] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
84] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
85] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
86] 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
87] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
88] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
89] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
90] 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)
91] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
92] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
93] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
94] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
95] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
96] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
97] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
98] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
99] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
100] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
101] 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.
102] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
103] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
104] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
105] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
106] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
107] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
108] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
109] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
110] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
111] 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)
112] 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
113] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
114] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
115] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
116] 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
117] 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
118] 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.
119] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
120] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
121] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
122] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
123] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
124] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
125] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
126] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
127] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
128] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
129] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
130] 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.”
131] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
132] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
133] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
134] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
135] 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
136] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
137] 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
138] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
139] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
140] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
141] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
142] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
143] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
144] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
145] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
146] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
147] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
148] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
149] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
150] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
151] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
152] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
153] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
154] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
155] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
156] 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
157] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
158] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
159] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
160] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
161] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
162] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
163] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
164] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
165] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
166] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
167] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
168] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
169] 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
170] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
171] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
172] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
173] 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
174] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
175] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
176] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
177] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
178] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
179] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
180] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
181] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
182] 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.
183] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
184] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
185] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
186] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
187] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
188] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
189] 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)
190] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
191] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
192] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
193] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
194] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
195] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
196] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
197] 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)
198] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
199] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
200] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
201] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
202] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
203] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
205] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
206] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
207] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
208] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
209] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
210] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] 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
212] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
213] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
214] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
215] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
216] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
217] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
218] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
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] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
221] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
222] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
223] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
224] 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.
225] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
226] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
227] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
228] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
229] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
230] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
231] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
232] 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.
233] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
234] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
235] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
236] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
237] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
238] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
239] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
240] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
241] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
242] 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
243] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
244] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
245] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
246] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
247] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
248] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
249] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
250] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
251] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
252] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
253] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
254] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
255] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
256] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
257] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
258] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
259] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
260] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
261] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
262] 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.
263] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
264] 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
265] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
266] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
267] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
268] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
269] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
270] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
271] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
272] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
273] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
274] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
275] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
276] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
277] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
278] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
279] 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)
280] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
281] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
282] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
283] 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).
284] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
285] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
286] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
287] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
288] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
289] 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
290] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
291] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
292] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
293] Commonsense is not so common.
294] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
295] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
296] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
297] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
298] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
299] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
300] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
301] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
302] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
303] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
304] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
305] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
306] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
307] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
308] 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.
309] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
310] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
311] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
312] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
313] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
314] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
315] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
316] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
317] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
318] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
319] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
320] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
321] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
322] 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
323] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
324] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
325] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
326] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
327] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
328] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
329] 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.
330] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
331] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
332] 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
333] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
334] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
335] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
336] 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
337] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
338] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
339] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
340] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
341] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
342] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
343] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
344] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
345] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
346] 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
347] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
348] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
349] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
350] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
351] 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
352] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
353] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
354] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
355] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
356] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
357] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
358] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
359] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
360] 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
361] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
362] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
363] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
364] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
365] Commonsense is not so common.
366] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
367] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
368] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
369] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
370] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
371] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
372] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
373] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
374] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
375] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
376] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
377] 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.
378] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
379] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
380] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
381] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
382] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
383] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
384] 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
385] 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
386] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
387] 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).
388] 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
389] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
390] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
391] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
392] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
393] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
394] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
395] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
396] 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.
397] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
398] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
399] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
400] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
401] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
402] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
403] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
404] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
405] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
406] 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.
407] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
408] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
409] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
410] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
411] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
412] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
413] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
414] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
415] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
416] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
417] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
418] 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)
419] 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).
420] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
421] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
422] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
423] 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.
424] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
425] 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.
426] 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
427] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
428] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
429] 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)
430] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
431] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
432] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
433] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
434] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
435] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
436] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
437] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
438] 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)
439] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
440] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
441] 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
442] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
443] 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.
444] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
445] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
446] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
447] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
448] 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
449] 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.
450] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
451] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
452] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
453] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
454] 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
455] 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.
456] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
457] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
458] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
459] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
460] 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.
461] 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
462] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
463] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] 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)
465] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
466] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
467] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
468] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
469] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
470] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
471] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
472] 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)
473] 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
474] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
475] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
476] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
477] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
478] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
479] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
480] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
481] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
482] 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)
483] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
484] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
485] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
486] 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
487] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
488] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
489] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
490] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
491] 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
492] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
493] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
494] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
495] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
496] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
497] 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
498] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
499] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
500] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
501] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
502] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
503] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
504] 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
505] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
506] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
507] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
508] 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
509] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
510] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
511] 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.
512] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
513] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
514] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
515] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
516] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
517] 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)
518] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
519] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
520] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
521] 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)
522] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
523] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
524] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
525] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
526] 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)
527] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
528] 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.
529] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
530] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
531] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
532] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
533] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
534] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
535] 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.
536] 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.
537] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
538] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
539] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
540] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
541] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
542] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
543] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
544] 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)
545] 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
546] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
547] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
548] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
549] 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.
550] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
551] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
552] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
553] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
554] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
555] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
556] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
557] 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.
558] 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
559] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
560] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
561] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
562] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
563] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
564] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
565] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
566] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
567] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
568] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
569] 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.
570] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
571] 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.
572] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
573] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
574] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
575] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
576] 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.
577] 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.
578] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
579] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
580] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
581] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
582] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
583] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
584] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
585] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
586] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
587] 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)
588] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
589] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
590] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
591] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
592] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
593] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
594] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
595] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
596] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
597] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
598] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
599] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
600] 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)