Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] 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
3] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
4] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
5] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
6] 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)
7] 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.
8] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
9] 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
10] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
11] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
12] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
13] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
14] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
15] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
16] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
17] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
18] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
19] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
20] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
21] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
22] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
23] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
24] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
25] 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
26] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
27] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
28] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
29] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
30] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
31] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
32] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
33] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
34] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
35] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
36] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
37] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
38] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
39] 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.
40] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
41] 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.
42] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
43] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
44] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
45] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
46] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
47] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
48] 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.
49] 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
50] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
51] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
52] 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)
53] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
54] 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.
55] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
56] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
57] 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
58] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
59] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
60] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
61] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
62] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
63] 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.
64] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
65] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
66] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
67] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
68] 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.
69] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
70] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
71] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
72] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
73] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
74] 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.
75] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
76] 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
77] 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.
78] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
79] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
80] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
81] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
82] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
83] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
84] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
85] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
86] 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
87] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
88] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
89] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
90] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
91] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
92] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
93] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
94] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
95] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
96] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
97] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
98] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
99] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
100] 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
101] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
102] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
103] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
104] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
105] 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)
106] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
107] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
108] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
109] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
110] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
111] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
112] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
113] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
114] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
115] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
116] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
117] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
118] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
119] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
120] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
121] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
122] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
123] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
124] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
125] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
126] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
127] 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
128] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
129] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
130] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
131] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
132] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
133] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
134] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
135] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
136] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
137] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
138] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
139] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
140] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
141] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
142] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
143] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
144] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
145] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
146] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
147] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
148] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
149] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
150] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
151] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
152] 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
153] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
154] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
155] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
156] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
157] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
158] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
159] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
160] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
161] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
162] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
163] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
164] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
165] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
166] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
167] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
168] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
169] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
170] 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.
171] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
172] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
173] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
174] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
175] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
176] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
177] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
178] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
179] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
180] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
181] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
182] 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
183] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
184] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
185] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
186] 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)
187] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
188] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
189] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
190] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
191] 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
192] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
193] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
194] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
195] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
196] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
197] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
198] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
199] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
200] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
201] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
202] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
203] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
204] 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.
205] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
206] 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
207] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
208] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
209] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
210] 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.
211] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
212] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
213] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
214] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
215] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
216] 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)
217] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
218] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
219] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
220] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
221] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
222] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
223] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
224] 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
225] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
226] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
227] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
228] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
229] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
230] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
231] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
232] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
233] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
234] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
235] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
236] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
237] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
238] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
239] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
240] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
241] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
242] 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.
243] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
244] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
245] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
246] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
247] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
248] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
249] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
250] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
251] 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)
252] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
253] 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.
254] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
255] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
256] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
257] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
258] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
259] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
260] 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
261] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
262] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
263] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
264] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
265] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
266] 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
267] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
268] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
269] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
270] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
271] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
272] 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
273] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
274] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
275] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
276] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
277] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
278] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
279] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
280] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
281] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
282] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
283] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
284] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
285] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
286] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
287] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
288] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
289] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
290] 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.
291] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
292] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
293] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
294] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
295] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
296] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
297] 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.
298] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
299] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
300] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
301] 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
302] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
303] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
304] 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
305] 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)
306] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
307] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
308] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
309] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
310] 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
311] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
312] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
313] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
314] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
315] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
316] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
317] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
318] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
319] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
320] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
321] 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.
322] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
323] 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
324] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
325] 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.
326] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
327] 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)
328] 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).
329] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
330] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
331] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
332] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
333] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
334] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
335] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
336] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
337] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
338] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
339] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
340] 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
341] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
342] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
343] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
344] 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.
345] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
346] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
347] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
348] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
349] 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.
350] 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.
351] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
352] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
353] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
354] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
355] 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
356] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
357] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
358] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
359] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
360] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
361] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
362] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
363] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
364] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
365] 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)
366] 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.
367] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
368] 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
369] 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
370] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
371] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
372] 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.
373] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
374] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
375] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
376] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
377] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
378] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
379] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
380] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
381] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
382] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
383] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
384] 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.
385] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
386] 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
387] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
388] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
389] 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
390] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
391] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
392] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
393] 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)
394] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
395] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
396] 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
397] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
398] 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.
399] 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.
400] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
401] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
402] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
403] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
404] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
405] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
406] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
407] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
408] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
409] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
410] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
411] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
412] 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
413] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
414] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
415] 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.
416] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
417] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
418] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
419] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
420] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
421] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
422] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
423] 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.
424] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
425] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
426] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
427] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
428] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
429] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
430] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
431] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
432] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
433] 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
434] 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.
435] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
436] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
437] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
438] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
439] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
440] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
441] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
442] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
443] 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
444] 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
445] 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.
446] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
447] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
448] 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
449] 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.
450] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
451] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
452] 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.
453] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
454] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
455] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
456] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
457] 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
458] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
459] 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 .
460] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
461] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
462] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
463] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
464] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
465] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
466] 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)
467] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
468] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
469] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
470] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
471] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
472] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
473] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
474] 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
475] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
476] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
477] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
478] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
479] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
480] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
481] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
482] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
483] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
484] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
485] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
486] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
487] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
488] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
489] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
490] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
491] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
492] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
493] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
494] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
495] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
496] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
497] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
498] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
499] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
500] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
501] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
502] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
503] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
504] 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
505] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
506] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
507] 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
508] 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
509] 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
510] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
511] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
512] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
513] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
514] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
515] 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)
516] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
517] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
518] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
519] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
520] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
521] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
522] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
523] 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).
524] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
525] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
526] 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.
527] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
528] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
529] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
530] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
531] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
532] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
533] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
534] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
535] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
536] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
537] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
538] 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
539] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
540] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
541] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
542] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
543] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
544] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
545] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
546] 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.
547] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
548] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
549] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
550] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
551] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
552] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
553] 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).
554] 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)
555] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
556] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
557] 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.
558] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
559] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
560] 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)
561] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
562] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
563] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
564] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
565] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
566] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
567] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
568] 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
569] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
570] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
571] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
572] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
573] 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
574] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
575] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
576] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
577] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
578] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
579] 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
580] 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
581] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
582] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
583] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
584] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
585] 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
586] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
587] 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
588] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
589] 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
590] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
591] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
592] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
593] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
594] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
595] 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
596] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
597] 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
598] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
599] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
600] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller